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title	:	Billy the Kid, His Life and Legend
author	:	Tuska, Jon.
publisher	:	University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin	:	0826317707
print isbn13	:	9780826317704
ebook isbn13	:	9780585276717
language	:	English
subject	Billy,--the Kid, Outlaws--Southwest, New--Biography, Southwest, New--Biography, Billy,--the Kid--Bibliography.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	F786.B54T87 1997eb
ddc	:	364.1/552/092
subject	:	Billy,--the Kid, Outlaws--Southwest, New--Biography, Southwest, New--Biography, Billy,--the Kid--Bibliography.

Page i Billy the Kid

Page ii The famous full-length tintype of Billy the Kid taken at Fort Sumner sometime in 1880. It is often reversed, placing the Kid's revolver on his left side. Courtesy of Lincoln County Heritage Trust.

Page iii Billy the Kid His Life and Legend Jon Tuska A revised and expanded edition of Billy the Kid: A Bio-Bibliography UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS ALBUQUERQUE

Page iv Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tuska, Jon. Billy the Kid, his life and legend / Jon Tuska. p. cm. Originally published: Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN (invalid) 08263017707 (acid-free paper) 1. Billy, the Kid. 2. Outlaws-Southwest, New-Biography. 3. Southwest, New-Biography. 4. Billy, the Kid-Bibliography. I. Title. [F786.B54T87 1997] 364.1 '552'092dc20 [B] 96-23957 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright 1994 by Jon Tuska All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. University of New Mexico Press paperbound edition published by agreement with Greenwood Press. First paperbound printing, 1997.

Page v For Loren D. Estleman La vrit ici n' a point votre air d'improvisation. Quel dommage!

Page vii Contents Illustrations ix Preface to the Second Edition xi Acknowledgments xvii 1 The Life and Death of Billy the Kid 1 2 Billy and the Historians 109 3 Billy the Kid in Fiction 153 4 Billy the Kid in Film 189 5 The Legend of Billy the Kid 227 Appendix A: A Billy the Kid Miscellany 247 Appendix B: A Billy the Kid Chronology 251 Notes 261 Index 279

Page ix Illustrations The famous full-length tintype of Billy the Kid frontispiece A map of Lincoln County during the Lincoln County War 9 Eugene Cunningham's Billy the Kid novel, DIAMOND RIVER MAN(RANGE) 167 Nelson Nye's A BULLET FOR BILLY THE KID 170 Johnny Mack Brown as Billy the Kid 191 William S. Hart presenting Johnny Mack Brown with a revolver that presumably once belonged to Billy the Kid 193 A scene from BILLY THE KID OUTLAWED 195 A scene from Billy THE KID IN SANTE FE 198 Buster Crabbe with Jack Ingram in WESTERN CYCLONE 202 Matt Clark, Kris Kristofferson, R. G. Armstrong, and James Coburn in PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID 210 Terence Stamp as John H. Tunstall smiles as Billy the Kid played by Emilio Estevez demonstrates his "triggernometry" 214 The cast of YOUNG GUNS 215 The cast of YOUNG GUNS II 219 BILLY THE KID ADVENTURE MAGAZINE 228

Page xi Preface to the Second Edition No book I have written has generated so much correspondence from interested or curious readers as this one. Students in high school have written term papers based on it and on more than one occasion I have been made a mentor and have been interviewed over the telephone by students in order to incorporate my comments into what they intended to write. A newspaper in Paris telephoned me long distance in an effort to locate the progeny of Billy the Kid. Fortunately perhaps for them they are all now dead. I was an expert witness in what I thought a ridiculous lawsuit between Morgan Creek Productions which produced YOUNG GUNS (20th-Fox, 1988) and M-G-M/Path in which the former asserted that the latter had been guilty of copyright infringement in producing the "The Young Riders" for the ABC television network. I was quite firmly in M-G-M/Path's camp that such an assertion was patently absurd. Some mention of this lawsuit is made at further length in the analysis of the two Morgan Creek films about Billy the Kid and his gang. To this must also be added the observation that more has been written by historians about Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War and more films have been made about him in the decade since the first edition of this handbook appeared than in the previous two decades combined. I have included discussions of all these new arrivals in the appropriate chapters following the life of the historical Billy the Kid who, without all this media attention in the more than a century since his passing, would have remained an obscure New Mexican horse thief and minor participant in a mercantile war in which he found himself clearly on the losing side. Just why he should have been singled out in the fashion he has been by the media (and become the obsession of otherwise sane historians as well) is addressed in the chapter on The Legend of Billy the Kid.

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