“I want no man who hesitates,” Frank Stewart told his Panhandle stockmen when they had realized that they weren’t just rounding up some stolen steer near Fort Sumner—they were going after Billy the Kid and his gang.   Yet Frank Stewart and Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett had a little fun along the way. While resting in Puerto de Luna, New Mexico, Garrett reported how Francisco Aragon entertained the men with his boasts that he, alone, would fight the desperadoes and tu


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