July 12, 1898 A t around 4 a.m., Doña Ana County Sheriff Pat Garrett and his posse are trying to sneak up on murder suspects Oliver Lee and Jim Gililland at Lee’s Wildy Well Ranch, east of the Jarilla Mountains in New Mexico. Lee and Gililland are wanted for the murder of Albert Jennings Fountain and his eight-year-old son Henry. For Garrett, it’s almost 17 years to the day since the incident that made him famous (or infamous)—the killing of Billy the Kid. This is a chance for him to r
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