Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life (1989)

by Robert M. Utley

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Examines the career of the young outlaw whose life and death were an expression of the violence prevalent on the American frontier.

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Nice book with lots of extraneous names. Tis hard to keep track of everyone. I like Cunningham's version of Billy better....tis story length. Billy really didn't have much going for him, so other than pure romantic fascination, I'm not sure about all the hoopla.... (

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High Noon in Lincoln by Robert M. Utley

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1989

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Blazer's Mills, New Mexico, USA

Fort Stanton, New Mexico, USA

Fort Sumner, New Mexico, USA

Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA

Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA

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Lincoln County War

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Dedication

For Paul Andrew Hutton
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Neighbor, Valued Critic

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PREFACE
"Quien es? Quien es?" With those words -- "Who is it? Who is it?" -- the youth threw away a critical moment of time.

The Kid
CHAPTER 1
Until the final few months of his life, the youth destined for immortality as the West's most famous outlaw was known not as Billy the Kid but simply as "the Kid."

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Because he was now the outlaw celebrity of the Southwest, and because anyone who ran him down would receive a reward of five hundred dollars, "Billy the Kid" headed the list of wanted criminals.
(p. 147)

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McMurtry, Larry

Momaday, N. Scott

Hutton, Paul Andrew

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