Billy the Kid, A Short and Violent Life by Robert M. Utley (1989, Hardcover)

Billy the Kid
A Short and Violent Life
by Robert M. Utley
Publisher:  University of Nebraska Press
Copyright 1989
Book Club Edition

"Highly readable and as definitive as anything we are likely to get on the brief life of Billy the Kid." -- Larry McMurtry, author of Anything for Billy.  "Here, for anyone who is interested in Billy the Kid, the Wild West, or the workings of the American imagination, is an indispensable book." -- N. Scott Momaday, author of House Made of Dawn.  "This is history as high adventure -- a masterpiece by the premier historian of the American frontier." -- Paul Anthony Hutton, editor of New Mexico Historical Review and author of Phil Sheridan and His Army.

Whatever his name or alias at the moment -- Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim, Billy Bonney -- people always called him the Kid.  Not until his final months did anyone call him Billy the Kid.  Newspapers pictured him as a king of outlaws; and his highly publicized capture, trial, escape, and end fixed his image in the public mind for all time.  He was only twenty-one years old when a bullet from Sheriff Pat Garrett's six-shooter killed him on July 14, 1881.  Within a year Billy the Kid became the subject of five dime-novel "biographies" as well as Garrett's ghost-written account, and that was just the beginning.

Robert M. Utley does what countless books, movies, television shows, musical compositions, and paintings have failed to do:  he successfully strips off the veneer of legendry to expose the reality of Billy the Kid.  Using previously untapped sources, he presents an engrossing story -- the most complete and accurate ever -- of a youthful hoodlum and sometime killer who found his calling in New Mexico's bloody power struggle known as the Lincoln County War.  In unmasking the legend Utley also tells us much about our heritage of frontier vigilantism and violence.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages are tanning from age.  Previous owner's name and date are written on the front endpaper.  Dust cover flaps may be tanning.  There's a small tear at the top of the front dust cover.  Dust cover show a bit of edge wear and creasing.

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