Billy the Kid : a short and violent life

Author(s)

• Utley, Robert Marshall

Bibliographic Information

Billy the Kid : a short and violent life

Robert M. Utley

University of Nebraska Press, c1989

Note

Bibliography: p. 273-284

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Robert M. Utley does what countless books, movies, television shows, musical compositions, and paintings have failed to do: he successfully strips off the veneer of legendry to expose the reality of Billy the Kid. Using previously untapped sources, he presents an engrossing story--the most complete and accurate ever--of a youthful hoodlum and sometime killer who found his calling in New Mexico's bloody power struggle known as the Lincoln County War. In unmasking the legend Utley also tells us much about our heritage of frontier vigilantism and violence.

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Details

• NCID: BA65991287
• ISBN:
  • 080324553X
• LCCN: 89030022
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Lincoln
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 302 p., [26] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : F786.B54
  • DC19 : 364.1/552/0924
  • DC19 : B
  • DC19 : 92
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Billy, the Kid
  • LCSH : Outlaws -- Southwest, New -- Biography
  • LCSH : Southwest, New -- History -- 1848-
  • LCSH : Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, New
  • JVSH : Billy, the Kid
  • JVSH : Robbers and outlaws
  • JVSH : Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)