The West of Billy the Kid
- List Price: $32.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
- Publish date: 09/01/1999
Here are the faces of Billy's family, friends, and enemies: John Tunstall and John Chisum, Sheriff Pat Garrett and Governor Lew Wallace, Jimmy Dolan and Bob Olinger, Alexander McSween and Paulita Maxwell, and many others. Here are Santa Fe and Silver City as Billy the Kid saw them, Lincoln, Las Vegas, and Tascosa. Recent photographs show the Kid's haunts as they appear today.
Nolan reminds us that, despite his legendary, even mythical, portrayal in perhaps a thousand books and films, Billy the Kid was real. He was a young man whose reckless life and violent death in frontier New Mexico made an indelible mark on the history of the Southwest and a permanent impression on imaginations throughout the world. Here, at last, is his authentic life.
