Early on the morning of July 18, 1881, mail contractor Michael Cosgrove pulled into Las Vegas direct from Fort Sumner with the biggest news ever to hit New Mexico Territory: Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett had shot dead Billy the Kid.
Las Vegas, a town of roughly 6,000, had two daily newspapers, the Las Vegas Daily Optic and the Las Vegas Daily Gazette, and these were the first to publish the sensational details of how the West’s most elusive outlaw finally met his end. Unfortunately, co
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