Burns, Walter Noble      <br/><br/>
Saga of Billy the Kid  
 The saga of Billy the Kid  
Walter Noble Burns ; introduction by Richard W. Etulain. 
 - 1st University of New Mexico Press ed. 
 - Albuquerque :  University of New Mexico Press,  1999. 
 - xvii, 322 pages   21 cm. 
 - Historians of the frontier and American West .
<br/><br/> Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1925.  "Published in cooperation with the University of New Mexico Center for the American West." 
<br/><br/> The king of the valley<br/>The lord of the mountains<br/>War clouds<br/>First blood<br/>The kid<br/>Child of the dark star<br/>An eye for an eye<br/>Thirteen to one<br/>The sheriff's morning walk<br/>The three-days' battle<br/>The man who played dead<br/>Hair-trigger peace<br/>A stranger from the panhandle<br/>A belle of old fort sumner<br/>At bay<br/>The dangling shadow<br/>A little game of monte<br/>The lure of black eyes<br/>The rendezvous with fate<br/>Hell's half-acre<br/>Trail's end 
<br/><br/> 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.<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0826321534 9780826321534 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>9780826321534 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99036553  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Billy, the kid
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Outlaws--Southwest, New<br/>Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, New.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Southwest, New--History--1848-
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<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>364.1552092 Bur  B   42