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Tag: Pat Garrett
The Most Dangerous Street in America In the 1870s, Lincoln, New Mexico Territory, was the murder capital of America.
The Lincoln County War was exceptionally violent, and much of that violence occurred in the small town of Lincoln, New M…
Christmas Road Trip
After Pat Garrett and his posse successfully captured Billy the Kid and three members of his gang at a place called Stin…
Who Assassinated Pat Garrett? Pat Garrett’s assassination remains a convoluted point of controversy that reads like an Agatha Christie mystery.
Pat Garrett’s assassination remains a convoluted point of controversy that reads like an Agatha Christie mystery. Was it…
Snowstorm Ambush
Five outlaws rode out of a powder-blue fog on the night of December 19, 1880, straight into an ambush sprung by Sheriff-…
Dear Lew
Writing in red ink on ruled paper, Billy the Kid writes a letter to Lew Wallace, the governor of New Mexico.Written from…
The Man Who Killed the Man Who Killed Billy the Kid Will the real Wayne Brazel please stand up?
On February 29, 1908, Jesse Wayne Brazel walked into the Doña Ana County sheriff’s office and announced, “Lock me up. . …
What History Has Taught Me: Ron Lesser
The poster I love the most, out of the more than 100 movie and television show posters I have created, is the one for 19…
The Man Who Invented Billy the Kid Who was Ash Upson?
Long before Walter Noble Burns arrived on the scene with his Saga of Billy the Kid in the 1920s, the largely fictitious …
Tales of Pat Garrett
Reading John LeMay’s Tall Tales & Half Truths of Pat Garrett (The History Press, $21.99) you get the idea everyone l…