Ebook: Billy the Kid: a Short and Violent Life

Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Kid; 2. The Adolescent; 3. The Outlaw; 4. The Ranch Hand; 5. The Avenger; 6. The Assassin; 7. The Shootout; 8. The Warrior; 9. The Fire; 10. The Drifter; 11. The Bargain; 12. The Rustler; 13. The Celebrity; 14. The Capture; 15. The Sentence; 16. The Escape; 17. The Execution; 18. The Legend; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Sources.;Whatever his name or alias at the moment-Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim, Billy Bonney-people always called him the Kid. Not until his final month did anyone call him Billy the Kid. Newspapers pictured him as a king of outlaws; and his highly publicized capture, trial, escape, and end fixed his image in the public mind for all time. He was only twenty-one years old when a bullet from Sheriff Pat Garett's six-shooter killed him on July 14, 1881. Within a year Billy the Kid became the subject of five dime-novel "biographies" as well as Garett's ghost-written account, and that was ju.