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Author Etulain, Richard W., author.

Title Thunder in the West : the life and legends of Billy the Kid / Richard W. Etulain.

Publication Info. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2020.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Eureka Non-Fiction  BIO Billy the Kid    ---  Available
Description xviii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Series Oklahoma western biographies ; volume 32
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-418) and index.
Summary "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 film-makers"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
Subject Billy, the Kid.
Outlaws -- Southwest, New -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Billy, the Kid -- In literature.
Legends -- Southwest, New.
Southwest, New -- In popular culture.
Southwest, New -- History -- 1848- -- Historiography.
Lincoln County (N.M.) -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography.
Added Title Life and legends of Billy the Kid
ISBN 9780806166254 (hardcover)

 
    
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