After the young man most people know as Billy the Kid was shot dead—in his stocking feet and not knowing who killed him—dozens of dime novels and unreliable accounts of his life sprang up, quick as garden weeds. In 1882, a year after he killed the Kid, Sheriff Pat Garrett published his side of the story in The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid: The Noted Desperado of the Southwest, Whose Deeds of Daring and Blood Made His Name a Terror in New Mexico, Arizona and Northern Mexico. Just the
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