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History of "Billy the Kid" / Charles A. Siringo ; foreword by Frederick Nolan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siringo, Charles A., 1855-1928.
- Series:
- Historians of the frontier and American West
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Billy, the Kid.
- Billy.
- Outlaws--Southwest, New--Biography.
- Outlaws.
- New Southwest.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, New.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Southwest, New--History--1848-.
- Southwest, New.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 142 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Reprinted only once since its first publication in 1920, History of "Billy the Kid" the rarest book on the New Mexico gunfighter. Born in Texas in 1855, Siringo was a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, western writer, and Hollywood advisor until his death in 1928, and crossed the Kid's path once or twice in the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico. His account incorporates some inaccuracies but offers genuine historical nuggets such as cowboy Jim East's eyewitness account of the Kid's capture by Pat Garrett at Stinking Spring. Enormously popular at the turn of the century, Siringo single-handedly kept Billy the Kid's flame alive until the 1920s. Historian Frederick Nolan discusses the place of Siringo's account in Billy the Kid literature.
- Notes:
- "Published in cooperation with the University of New Mexico Center for the American West."
- Reprint. Originally published: Santa Fe, N.M. : C.A. Siringo, 1920.
- ISBN:
- 0826321976
- OCLC:
- 42296775
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