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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as I knew them : reminiscences of John P. Meadows / edited by John P. Wilson.
LIBRA F786 .M493 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meadows, John P., 1854-1936.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Billy, the Kid--Friends and associates.
- Billy.
- Garrett, Pat F. (Pat Floyd), 1850-1908--Friends and associates.
- Garrett, Pat F.
- Meadows, John P., 1854-1936.
- Meadows, John P.
- Garrett, Pat F. (Pat Floyd), 1850-1908.
- Billy, the Kid.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, New.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Sheriffs.
- Friends and associates.
- New Southwest.
- Outlaws--Southwest, New--Biography.
- Outlaws.
- Sheriffs--Southwest, New--Biography.
- Southwest, New--History--1848-.
- Southwest, New.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 192 pages : illustrations maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- These recollections gathered by John Wilson are based on John P. Meadows's interviews that refuted inaccuracies in the 1930 movie "Billy the Kid. This collection also includes Meadows's experiences from the Southwest's frontier days.
- Contents:
- Getting acquainted : Fort Sumner, Pinos Wells, White Oaks
- Billy and the Lincoln County War
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
- Seven Rivers and Fort Sumner to Silver City in 1880
- Southern Arizona and return to New Mexico, 1880
- I go to work for Pat Coghlan
- How we guarded one of Pat Garrett's prisoners
- Recovering stolen horses from the Indians
- Life in the Sacramentos in 1881
- Murder of the Nesmith family
- Arresting a murderer in 1883 in the Agua Chiquita country
- My association with Pat F. Garrett
- The Howe murder case
- The cowboys and their diversions
- Experiences in the early 1890s
- Feud murder on the Sacramento River
- Making hay where no grass grows now
- Calls 'em down
- Catching a slippery cow thief.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-180) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826333257
- OCLC:
- 55488077
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