To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett

To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett
Mark Lee Gardner
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Paperback
h203 x 135mm - 336pg
14 May 2020 US
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9780063011922
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Sheriff Pat Garrett's thrilling, break-neck chase for his nemesis, the notorious bandit Billy the Kid. Billy the Kid ' a.k.a. Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, and William Bonney ' was a horse thief, cattle rustler, charismatic rogue, and cold-blooded killer. A superb pistol shot, the Kid had taken the lives of four men single handedly and five more with the help of gun-toting cronies. Two of his victims were Lincoln County (New Mexico) deputies, shot down during the Kid's brazen daylight escape from the courthouse jail on April 28, 1881. After killing his guards and filing through the chain securing his leg irons, The Kid danced a macabre jig on Lincoln's boardwalk before riding away on a stolen horse. All of this while terrified townspeople ' and not a few Kid sympathizers ' looked on. But for Lincoln County's new sheriff, Pat Garrett, the chase was on... To Hell On A Fast Horse brings to life the thrilling manhunt for the Wild West most iconic outlaw. It also will be the first 'dual biography' of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, two larger-than-life figures from the American West who are inextricably linked ' neither would become the stuff of legend without the other. Making excellent use of voluminous primary source material and decades of published scholarship on the Kid and Garrett, the book will go beneath the myth to take a fresh look at these two men, what they meant to one another, and what they would come to mean to an American public enamored of a violent American West.
"The double-helix relationship between Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett is one of the abiding fascinations of the West. No one has come closer than Mark Lee Gardner to capturing their twin destinies and their inevitable final collision...you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. " -- Hampton Sides, author of the New York Times bestsellers Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers "A masterpiece! Mark Gardner's dual biography of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett cuts through the myth to tell the real story of two real figures in the Wild West. Gardner's scholarship is superb. This work can only be called a classic." -- David Dary "Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and relationship of these two iconic westerners emerge to suppress myth and correct more than a century of tomes laden with bad history." -- Robert M. Utley "Digging beneath the myths and melodrama, [Gardner] begins in Las Vegas during Christmas week, 1880, when the capture and confinement of Billy the Kid made national headlines... Gardner's extensive research and authoritative approach ground this compelling historical recreation." -- Publishers Weekly "As gripping as any thriller." -- Library Journal
Mark Lee Gardner is the author of To Hell on a Fast Horse, the story of Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett. An authority on the American West, Gardner has appeared on PBS's American Experience, ABC's World News, the History Channel, Encore Westerns, NPR's All Things Considered, and BBC Radio. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, American Heritage, Wild West, American Cowboy, and New Mexico magazine. Gardner lives with his family in Cascade, Colorado.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780063011922
Published: 14 May 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: William Morrow Paperbacks
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 135mm
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 242g
Pages: 336

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