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English
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Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett ended Billy the Kid's life on the night of July 14, 1881, with a shot in the dark, he was catapulted at once into stardom in the annals of Western history. The killing occurred at old Fort Sumner, New Mexico on the Pecos River. Garrett by pure chance had encountered the Kid in a darkened room of the Pete Maxwell house. As the unsuspecting Billy entered, he was cut down without warning. But the Kid had his share...
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Nicholas Flamel appeared in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter—but did you know he really lived? And he might still be alive today! Discover the truth in Michael Scott’s New York Times bestselling series the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel with Billy the Kid and the Vampyres of Vegas, an ebook original.
Years before Sophie and Josh Newman met Nicholas Flamel, two legendary warriors fought...
Years before Sophie and Josh Newman met Nicholas Flamel, two legendary warriors fought...
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Many histories of the short life of Old West gunslinger William Bonney have been published, but few pack the punch of Charles A. Siringo's History of 'Billy the Kid', a thrilling first-person account that traces the doomed outlaw's story from birth to death. Siringo was known in his time as a cowboy detective and spent months pursuing Bonney.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Route 66 comes this long-awaited biography of one of America's most legendary folk heroes.Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and yet remains an enigma to this day. With the Gilded Age in full swing and the Industrial Revolution reshaping the American landscape,...
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ITN Sales, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The high price on his head has made Billy an evasive target for bounty hunters from all over the old west, and Billy knows that every time he rides out, he has a chance of getting bushwhacked. Unlike any other account of the Billy the Kid saga, the movie captures the fury, paranoia and heartbreak that defined the last days of the gunslinger's existence.
12) Billy the Kid
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Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Language
English
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"The Fourth Horseman" (first published in 1954) is the story of Frank Rachel, who ventures down the Mogollon Rim into Peaceful Basin. A fugitive from range wars, Frank wants a place where he can start a ranch and live a life without guns. But Libby Fewkes and Garth Graden change all that. "Santa Fe Passage" (1952) inspired a motion picture after its appearance in Esquire Magazine. Kirby Randolph is a mountain man who comes to St. Louis in search of...
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Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the annals of American frontier history, few people left behind such a lasting and far-reaching fame as Billy the Kid. Almost everyone knows his most famous alias. Even if they don't know the detailed or minimal particulars of his existence, they have heard the name somewhere. Henry McCarty alias William H. Bonney ceased to exist in the public eye during his own lifetime and was eclipsed by a legendary persona that still endures today. When and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When the folks of White Oaks begin seeing Billy the Kid, who died several years earlier, around town, Clint Adams, a hired gun for a local storekeeper, doesn't believe in ghosts until he comes face-to-face with Billy who has a deadly message for him
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"French bulldog Billy the Kid was born with an ear for music. And not just any music. He loves barking to the beat of country music! So Billy sets out to Nashville to sing his heart out. But when he meets some big bullies at the Battle of the Bow-wows, Billy worries he's barking up the wrong tree. He'll need his favorite songs ('Jowlene' and 'I Will Pawlways Love You,' of course), a group of scrappy new friends, and his favorite country music star...
18) To hell on a fast horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the epic chase to justice in the Old West
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"To Hell on a Fast Horse" re-creates the thrilling manhunt for the Wild West's most iconic outlaw. It is also the first dual biography of the Kid and Garrett, each a larger-than-life figure who would not have become legendary without the other
Author
Series
Billy the Kid's old timey oddities volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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