Preservation: Saving the Sheriff

Saving the Sheriff On February 28, 1908, famed lawman Pat Garrett was gunned down just off a road outside Las Cruces, New Mexico. The killer of Billy the Kid died as a result of a land dispute—although the man who shot him, Wayne Brazel, was acquitted on a claim of self-defense. About 30 years later, Garrett’s youngest son Jarvis put a marker at the death site: a rock with a cross on it surrounded by cement, in which “P. Garrett” and “Feb 1908” were scrawled. Jump ahead nearly 100