Saga of Billy the Kid
by Burns, Walter Noble
Series: Historians of the frontier and American West Edition statement:1st University of New Mexico Press ed. Published by : University of New Mexico Press, (Albuquerque :) Physical details: xvii, 322 pages 21 cm. ISBN:0826321534; 9780826321534. ISSN:978082632| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 364.154092 Dug A stolen life : | 364.1552 Utl Billy the Kid | 364.1552092 Bra Jesse James : The man and the myth | 364.1552092 Bur Saga of Billy the Kid | 364.1552092 Gar To hell on a fast horse | 364.1552092 Ote Real Billy the Kid: with New Light on the Lincoln County War | 364.1552092 Wal Billy the Kid : |
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1925.
"Published in cooperation with the University of New Mexico Center for the American West."
The king of the valley
The lord of the mountains
War clouds
First blood
The kid
Child of the dark star
An eye for an eye
Thirteen to one
The sheriff's morning walk
The three-days' battle
The man who played dead
Hair-trigger peace
A stranger from the panhandle
A belle of old fort sumner
At bay
The dangling shadow
A little game of monte
The lure of black eyes
The rendezvous with fate
Hell's half-acre
Trail's end
First published in 1926, this entertaining and dramatic biography forever installed outlaw Billy the Kid in the pantheon of mythic heroes from the Old West and is still considered the single most influential portrait of Billy in this century. Saga focuses on the Kid's life and experiences in the bloody war between the Murphy-Dolan and Tunstall-McSween gangs in and around Lincoln, New Mexico, between 1878 and 1881. Burns paints the Kid as a boyish Robin Hood or romantic knight galvanized into a life of crime and killing by the war's violence and bloodshed. Billy represented the romantic and anarchic Old West that the march of civilization was rapidly displacing. His destroyer was Pat Garrett, the courageous sheriff of Lincoln County. Garrett's shooting of Billy in 1881 hastened the closing of the American frontier. Walter Noble Burns's Saga of Billy the Kid kindled a fascination in Billy the Kid that survives to this day. Richard W. Etulain's foreword discusses the singular importance of Saga in the historical literature on Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War.
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