Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid\'s charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life--and that only multiplied, growing to legendary proportions after his death at age twenty-one.
Etulain takes the true measure of Billy, the man and the legend, and presents the clearest picture yet of his Life and his ever-shifting place and presence in the cultural landscape of the Old West..
In Thunder in the West , Richard W.
Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid\'s charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life--and that only multiplied, growing to legendary proportions after his death at age twenty-one