Real Billy the Kid: with New Light on the Lincoln County War with new light on the Lincoln County War
Billy the Kid The Real Billy the Kid: with New Light on the Lincoln County War
Miguel Antonio Otero, Jr. ; introduction by John-Michael Rivera.
- Houston, Texas Arte Publico Press 1998.
- xlv, 144 p. ill. ; 22 cm.
- Recovering the U.S. Hispanic literary heritage .
First years of Billy the Kid Fights with the Apaches The Lincoln County War of 1878 The murder of Tunstall A lull and then the deluge The kid at Fort Sumner Enter Sheriff Pat Garrett Echoes of the Lincoln County War Lincoln remembers The Kid More memories of The Kid A visit to Fort Sumner An old friend of The Kid speaks When the author met The Kid And now the end
Miguel Antonio Otero served as the first Hispanic governor of the U.S. Territory of New Mexico, from 1897 to 1906. He was appointed to the office by President William McKinley. Long after his retirement from politics, Governor Otero wrote and published his memoirs in three volumes, a major contribution to New Mexico history. But he also published a biography in 1936 titled The Real Billy the Kid. His aim in that book, he proclaimed, was to writer the Kid's story "without embellishment, based entirely on actual fact." Otero had known the outlaw briefly and also had known the man who killed Billy in 1881, Sheriff Pat Garrett. The author recalled Garrett saying he regretted having to slay Billy. Or, as he bluntly put it, "it was simply the case of who got in the first shot. I happened to be the lucky on" -- Back cover
1558852344 (trade paper : alk. paper) 9780865345478
98003220
Billy the Kid
Outlaws--Biography.--Southwest, New
Southwest, New--History--1848- Lincoln County (N.M.)--History.