Whatever his name or alias at the moment--Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim, Billy Bonney--people always called him the Kid.
Utley is the author of High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier, Ca.
One of the preeminent western historians writing today, Robert M.
In unmasking the legend Utley also tells us much about our heritage of frontier vigilantism and violence.
Using previously untapped sources, he presents an engrossing story-the most complete and accurate ever-of a youthful hoodlum and sometime killer who found his calling in New Mexico\'s bloody power struggle known as the Lincoln County War.
Utley does what countless books, movies, television shows, musical compositions, and paintings have failed to do: he successfully strips off the veneer of legendry to expose the reality of Billy the Kid.
Robert M.
Within a year Billy the Kid became the subject of five dime-novel biographies as well as Garett\'s ghost-written account, and that was just the beginning.
He was only twenty-one years old when a bullet from Sheriff Pat Garett\'s six-shooter killed him on July 14, 1881.
Newspapers pictured him as a king of outlaws; and his highly publicized capture, trial, escape, and end fixed his image in the public mind for all time.
Not until his final month did anyone call him Billy the Kid.
Whatever his name or alias at the moment-Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim, Billy Bonney-people always called him the Kid.
In unmasking the legend Utley also tells us much about our heritage of frontier vigilantism and violence.
Using previously untapped sources, he presents an engrossing story--the most complete and accurate ever--of a youthful hoodlum and sometime killer who found his calling in New Mexico\'s bloody power struggle known as the Lincoln County War.
Utley does what countless books, movies, television shows, musical compositions, and paintings have failed to do: he successfully strips off the veneer of legendry to expose the reality of Billy the Kid.
Robert M.
Within a year Billy the Kid became the subject of five dime-novel biographies as well as Garett\'s ghost-written account, and that was just the beginning.
He was only twenty-one years old when a bullet from Sheriff Pat Garett\'s six-shooter killed him on July 14, 1881.
Newspapers pictured him as a king of outlaws; and his highly publicized capture, trial, escape, and end fixed his image in the public mind for all time.
Not until his final month did anyone call him Billy the Kid.
Whatever his name or alias at the moment--Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim, Billy Bonney--people always called him the Kid
