Description This is a new edition. forensic psychiatrist, has published multiple books on Billy the Kid, and is his foremost revisionist historian..
The author, Gale Cooper, a Harvard Medical School educated M.
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Implications of Billy the Kid\'s Writings are brought to the present day by discussion of the modern Santa Fe Ring and its 21 st century attempt to hijack his by an historical hoax.
As revisionist history, the text analyzes everything from his penmanship to his brilliance, and places his Words in the context of his times: portraying him as a freedom fighter in the lost multi-cultural Lincoln County War against the land-grabbing political cabal of the Santa Fe Ring.
Included is a new Billy the Kid letter to Governor Lew Wallace, authenticated by the author.
For the first time all his letters in original handwriting are reproduced together.
All his known communications are presented in full: deposition, court transcript, bill of sale, letters, newspaper interviews, and quotes from contemporaries\' memoirs.
In hardback and paperback, it is 592 pages.
Bonney aka Billy the Kid.
This second edition of Billy the Kid\'s Writings, Words, and Wit is the definitive study of the written and recorded Words of Old West icon, William H.
Description This is a new edition
