5/30/2023 0 Comments Billy the Kid by Robert M. UtleyOther books about the Kid came and went, but in the 1920s, he made a dramatic reappearance spawned by the disparity between the rich and the poor of the time. What was written became the reality that readers bought into, and the book established the Kid as hero and antihero. Partly ghostwritten by Connecticut-born Marshall Ashmun Upson, the book was commissioned by Garrett to help clear up and burnish his own image. Just the lengthy title and subtitle suggest the windy yarns, misconceptions and myths that were to follow. In 1882, a year after he killed the Kid, Sheriff Pat Garrett published his side of the story in The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid: The Noted Desperado of the Southwest, Whose Deeds of Daring and Blood Made His Name a Terror in New Mexico, Arizona and Northern Mexico. After the young man most people know as Billy the Kid was shot dead-in his stocking feet and not knowing who killed him-dozens of dime novels and unreliable accounts of his life sprang up, quick as garden weeds.
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