Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life - Softcover

Utley, Robert M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860646018 ISBN 13: 9781860646010

Publisher: Barbara Ward & Associates, 2000

Synopsis

Outlaw, hoodlum and killer, and slain at the age of 21 by Pat Garrett - Billy the Kid has become one of the icons of America's Wild West. This account tells the story of his brief and bloody life.

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Review:

http: //nebraskapress.typepad.com/university_of_nebraska_pr/2010/08/a-pardon-for-billy-the-kid-.html--Cara Pesek"UNP blog" (08/06/2010)

"In the last three decades, scholarship about Billy has shaken off its pulp origins and become professional, the best three books, in my view, being Robert M. Utley's Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life (1989), Frederick Nolan's The West of Billy the Kid (1998), and now Michael Wallis's Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride."--Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books--Larry McMurtry"New York Review of Books" (10/25/2007)

"Utley deftly slices away the veneer of legend to reveal the flesh-and-blood young man a tragic figure who was neither a mythical hero nor a ruthless killer, but a rather ordinary outlaw whose career did not live up to his reputation."--Michael Wallis, True West--Michael Wallis "True West "

About the Author:

One of the preeminent western historians writing today, Robert M. Utley is the author of High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier, Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier and The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull, as well as Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 (1984) and Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 (1981) published by the University of Nebraska Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Barbara Ward & Associates
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1860646018
• ISBN 13: 9781860646010
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304