Ash Upson is best known as the ghost writer for at least part of The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid—ostensibly authored by Pat Garret. The two...
A Final Gift Pat Garrett gave a grave to his friend Ash Upson.
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Pat Garrett
A Rare Find Researchers discover a document related to Pat Garrett’s death.
Four years ago, in 2017, Dona Ana County (NM) researchers found a remarkable document in a box of old records. It was a coroner’s jury report from...
A New Leaf A Billy the Kid pal who went straight…
Billy Wilson rode with Billy the Kid—was arrested with him by Pat Garrett at Stinking Springs in December 1880. He later went straight, in Texas,...
¿Quien Es? Billy the Kid vs Pat Garrett
For her he took a bullet in the heart.
Billy the Kid: Good Guy or Bad Was Billy the Kid a good guy or bad? You decide!
Here’s a quick summary. Billy was a likable young man. He was very popular with the Latino population in New Mexico. He spoke Spanish...
To Hell on a Fast Horse – Ten Years On
The Highs and Lows in the Continuing Saga of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett .
The Killing Of Pat Garrett Carl Adamson was the third man present when the lawman died.
Carl Adamson was a New Mexico rancher who agreed to buy property from legendary lawman Pat Garrett in 1908. In fact, Adamson was riding in a buggy...
Garrett And Garner A friendship between the lawman and a future v.p.
In the early 1890s, more than a decade after killing Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett moved his family to Uvalde, Texas. He owned a ranch there and bred...
An Enchanting Song For New Mexico One of Pat Garrett’s children wrote the state song.
Pat Garrett left quite a legacy as a lawman in New Mexico and the killer of Billy the Kid. But he wasn’t the only member of the family to leave an...
Pals On The Side Of The Law Pat Garrett and Barney Mason made a formidable pair.
Barney Mason and Pat Garrett were tight. Mason rode posse with the lawman in his search for Billy the Kid. He was there when Tom O’Folliard and...
The Best of Butch’s Wild Bunch
How the real outlaws who rode and robbed from Montana to Bolivia became cinema heroes.
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-elect Pat Garrett. As Billy...