Fred Nolan and Robert Utley could riff with the best of them. In April of 2012, I was giving a history talk in a tent on the concourse of Ruidoso Downs, where the annual Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium was being held, and it just so happened that the foremost Billy the Kid scholar, Fred Nolan, was visiting New Mexico from Chalfont St Giles, England. Fred and his wife, Heidi, came in the tent, unrecognized, and sat in the front row. The modest-sized tent could hold perhaps 45 people. I started m


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