The Saga of Billy the Kid: The Thrilling Life of America's Original Outlaw - Softcover

Burns, Walter Noble

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1629143936 ISBN 13: 9781629143934

Publisher: Skyhorse, 2014

Synopsis

Originally published in 1926, this biography tells the rousing tale of Billy the Kid, one of the most well-known outlaws in the Old West. The Saga of Billy the Kid focuses on a period of time when two dangerous gangs tore a bloody path across Lincoln, New Mexico. After being shot to death in 1881 by the intrepid Lincoln County sheriff Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid became a romanticized symbol of the wildness that laced the American West. Interest in the outlaw’s wild life grew after Burns’s initial publication, setting Billy the Kid up as one of the finest examples of the loss of the Wild West. As the United States grew more industrialized, the stories of saloons, train robberies, and lone cowboys became even more important, and still remain important today.
In a rousing tale that is partly truth, partly fiction, read the story that started its own wild frontier in the most influential version available.

About this title

From the Author:

Walter Noble Burns: Walter Noble Burns (1872-1932), was a journalist and historian in Chicago.

From the Inside Flap:

First published in 1926, this dramatic biography forever installed outlaw Billy the Kid in the pantheon of mythic heroes from the Old West.

About this edition

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1629143936
• ISBN 13: 9781629143934
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336