Walter Noble Burns - The Saga of Billy the Kid (Historians of the Frontier and American West Series)
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First published in 1926, this entertaining and dramatic biography forever installed outlaw Billy the Kid in the pantheon of mythic heroes from the Old West and is still considered the single most influential portrait of Billy in this century. Saga focuses on the Kids life and experiences in the bloody war between the Murphy-Dolan and Tunstall-McSween gangs in and around Lincoln, New Mexico, between 1878 and 1881. Burns paints the Kid as a boyish Robin Hood or romantic knight galvanized into a life of crime and killing by the wars violence and bloodshed. Billy represented the romantic and anarchic Old West that the march of civilization was rapidly displacing. His destroyer was Pat Garrett, the courageous sheriff of Lincoln County. Garretts shooting of Billy in 1881 hastened the closing of the American frontier. Walter Noble Burnss Saga of Billy the Kid kindled a fascination in Billy the Kid that survives to this day. Richard W. Etulains foreword discusses the singular importance of Saga in the historical literature on Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War.
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HISTORIANS OF THE FRONTIER AND AMERICAN WEST RICHARD W. ETULAIN, SERIES EDITOR
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The Saga of Billy the Kid
Walter Noble Burns
Introduction by Richard W. Etulain
PUBLISHED IN COOPERATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO CENTER FOR THE AMERICAN WEST UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS ALBUQUERQUE
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1925 by Doubleday, Page & Co. Renewed 1953 by Rose Marie Burns. Introduction 1999 by the University of New Mexico Press. All rights reserved. First University of New Mexico Press Edition, 1999.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Burns, Water Noble. The saga of Billy the Kid / Walter Noble Burns.lst University of New Mexico Press ed. p. cm.(Historians of the frontier and American West series) Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1925. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8263-2153-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Billy, the Kid. 2. OutlawsSouthwest, New Biography. 3. Frontier and pioneer lifeSouthwest, New. 4. Southwest, NewHistory1848Biography. I. Title. II. Series: Historians of the frontier and American West. F786.B54B87 1999 364.15'52'092dc21 [B] 99-36553 CIP
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TO MY WIFE
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Contents
Chapter
Page
Introduction
by Richard W. Etulain
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I. The King of the Valley
1
II. The Lord of the Mountains
21
III. War Clouds
36
IV. First Blood
45
V. The Kid
53
VI. Child of the Dark Star
70
VII. An Eye for an Eye
84
VIII. Thirteen to One
92
IX. The Sheriff's Morning Walk
101
X. The Three-Days' Battle
114
XI. The Man Who Played Dead
144
XII. Hair-Trigger Peace
150
XIII. A Stranger from the Panhandle
167
XIV. A Belle of Old Fort Sumner
180
XV. At Bay
199
XVI. The Dangling Shadow
215
XVII. A Little Game of Monte
229
XVIII. The Lure of Black Eyes
254
XIX. The Rendezvous with Fate
264
XX. Hell's Half-Acre
290
XXI. Trail's End
301
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Introduction1
Richard W. Etulain
The Old West was born again in the 1920s. Like the closing decades of the nineteenth century and the later 1950s, the decade and a half following World War I seemed aflame with interest in a Wild West. This fascination burned across nearly every facet of American cultural life. In the 1920s, Zane Grey's yearly fictional Westerns topped bestseller lists, and cinematic Westerns, by far, were the most popular movie genre. Likewise in the twenties, frontier histories by Frederick Jackson Turner and Frederic Logan Paxson won major acclaim, and hundreds of thousands of Americans flocked west to rough it easy on Dude Ranches sprouting all over the West.
At the same time, a gathering remuda of journalist-historians churned out more than two dozen book-length biographies of lively western heroes and heroines. These appealingly written biographies were part and parcel of the Old West story that gradually solidified in the first decades of the twentieth century. Buffalo Bill Cody, Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Billy the Kidall these Wild West demigods were subject to at least one biography in the decade stretching from the mid-twenties to the mid-thirties. Nearly all the biographies came from journalists; nearly all these writers wrote positive or, at least, sympathetic portraits of their subjects and of the closing frontier they depicted.
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