Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid–The Way It Should Be Seen Fifty years after its first release, the film’s recent version is considered the best....

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid–The Way It Should Be Seen Fifty years after its first release, the film’s recent version is considered the best....
The Kid gets out of jail. April 28, 1881. Billy the Kid was being held in the Lincoln County Courthouse; he was sentenced to hang for the murder of...
How did the Kid arm himself for his big escape? Some accounts claim that when Billy the Kid escaped from the Lincoln County Jail in 1881, he used a...
Pat Garrett takes down Billy July 14, 1881. Billy the Kid had come to the Maxwell house at Fort Sumner to cut a slice of meat. He was barefooted,...
Last weekend we had a great celebration at Old Tucson when we presented our True Westerner Award to Al Harper in the Grand Hotel Saloon. Not only...
The Apache Kid vs. Al Sieber, Then Everyone in Arizona June 1, 1887 Absent from duty for five days, the Apache Kid, along with four other Apache...
What is your opinion of Stuart Lake’s Wyatt Earp biography Frontier Marshal? Josh Taylor Austin, Texas Much of Lake’s book comes from the fertile...
Henry McCarty becomes The Kid… December 3, 1880. W.S. Koogler, co-owner of the Las Vegas Gazette, publishes a long article on crime in the Pecos and...
Tracking the legend across Arizona and New Mexico is still an adventure. It’s easy to start a travel story when you know where your subject was...
Did the U.S. Army find out who was selling rifles to the Lakota and Cheyenne Indians prior to the Battle of Little Big Horn? Joe Manriquez...
A few days after the killing of Billy the Kid at Pete Maxwell’s house in Fort Sumner, New Mexico on July 11, 1881, Pat Garrett traveled by train to...
Billy the Kid gets caught holding stolen goods. September 23, 1875. Henry McCarty--later Billy the Kid--is arrested for the first time. He'd been...