Thunder in the West : the life and legends of Billy the Kid /
Biography of the notorious westerner William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, and evaluates more than a century of interpretations of him by biographers and historians, novelists and filmmakers.
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| Language: | English |
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Oklahoma western biographies.
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Table of Contents:
- Mysterious Origins: Henry McCarty to William Bonney
- Entering Territorial New Mexico: Setting the Scene
- Negotiating Silver City and Arizona
- Entering Lincoln County: Setting the Scene
- Peopling the Battleground: The Dramatic Personae
- Billy Comes to Lincoln County
- A War Heats Up in New Battles
- The Five-Day Battle
- A New Kind of Journey
- Looking for a Path
- Days of Decline and Death
- Who and What Was Billy the Kid?
- The Rise of a Legendary Billy the Kid, 1880-
- Billys of Another Kind, 1926-
- The Rise of a Bifurcated Billy, 1960-
- Billy from 1995 to the Present
- Pondering the Life and Legends of Billy the Kid.