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The Man Who Invented Billy the Kid

by | Sep 11, 2017 | Features & Gunfights

Long before Walter Noble Burns arrived on the scene with his Saga of Billy the Kid in the 1920s, the largely fictitious events presented in Pat Garrett’s book, An Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, were “rem


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