When Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett ended Billy the Kids life on the night of July 14, 1881, with a shot in the dark, he was catapulted at once into stardom in the annals of Western history. This edition is a facsimile of the 1927 text that Garrett wrote to counteract the negative image he gained after the shooting.

This edition, complete with the original text, provides an introduction that reappraises the last fatal meeting of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. Frederick Nolan shows how the Garrett's book is responsible for misconceptions about the Kid's early life and his short, violent career.

A reprint of the 1st ed.: 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. By Pat F. Garrett, by whom he was finally hunted down and captured by killing him. Santa Fe, N.M., New Mexican Print. and Pub. co., 1882.