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  Pat Garrett
JUNE 5, 1850 - Pat Garrett is born in Chambers County, Alabana, one of seven children, the son of John Lumpkin Garrett and Elizabeth Ann Jarvis Garrett, farmers.
Garrett's name is on the cover as author, but Ash Upson, a close friend, newspaperman, and notary, said he (Upson) wrote every word of it.
FEBRUARY 29, 1908 - Pat Garrett and Carl Adamson, a brother-in-law of Miller, are in a buckboard and bound from the Garrett ranch to Las Cruces for a con- ference with Miller.
www.nmia.com /~btkog/garrett.htm   (781 words)

  
  Pat Garrett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Garrett was charged with tracking down and arresting a friend from his saloon keeping days, Henry McCarty, a jail escapee and Lincoln County War criminal who often went by the aliases Henry Antrim and William Harrison Bonney, but better known as Billy the Kid.
Garrett did not listen, and when his reappointment was denied, he traveled to Washington DC to speak personally with Roosevelt, but had the bad judgment of taking Powers with him.
Garrett was known to have carried a double barreled shotgun when he traveled, he had a fiery temper, was more often than not difficult to get along with, and it was totally believable that he reacted with violence during his argument with Brazel, which was his nature.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pat_Garrett   (2053 words)

  
 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a 1973 film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was originally intended to be directed by Monte Hellman, who had just directed an acclaimed film called Two-Lane Blacktop.
In the original script, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid never met onscreen until the end of the film, and Wurlitzer reportedly deeply resented Peckinpah's reworking of the narrative.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pat_Garrett_and_Billy_the_Kid   (1032 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Pat Garrett   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Garrett agreed to the deal, not realizing they would be grazing goats rather than cattle (largely in an attempt to anger Garrett into selling the property and its valuable water rights).
Garrett was played by Glenn Corbett in Chisum (1970), by James Coburn in the film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) and by William Petersen in Young Guns II (1990).
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a soundtrack album released by Bob Dylan in 1973 for the Sam Peckinpah film of the same name.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pat-Garrett   (3344 words)

  
 Pat Garrett & B. Kid by Tom Block at tedstrong.com
To cap it all off Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was never authoritatively "finished,” with the optimal available version — the so-called "director's cut” — still falling miserably short of a fine cut and missing a key scene to boot.
As it turns out the body of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is only a shutter-quick memory of events relived in the time it takes a dying man to hit the ground: at the moment of his assassination, Garrett's mind rewinds 27 years until he's faced with his own culpability in his own murder.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid's biggest liability is the fl hole at its center, with the idea of Billy the Kid so torn between Wurlitzer's, Peckinpah's and Kris Kristofferson's conceptions of him that he resembles a hologram baseball card whose image changes at every different angle.
www.tedstrong.com /garrett3.shtml   (3650 words)

  
 Pat Garrett Enjoyed Controversy
Pat Garrett left Louisiana at 18, becoming a cowpuncher and buffalo hunter in the Texas panhandle.
Garrett's day-to-day existence as sheriff proved to be dangerous and physically exhausting, and the compensation was meager.
Aware of Garrett's feats as Sheriff of Lincoln County, Roosevelt was duly impressed with the lawman.
www.epcc.edu /ftp/homes/monicaw/borderlands/20_garrett.htm   (1516 words)

  
 Outlaws & Lawmen
Born Patrick Floyd Garrett in Alabama in 1850, he is most famous for the killing of "Billy-the-Kid" but he came out west in 1869 and was a Buffalo Hunter, Cowboy, and even a Hog rancher.
Pat Garrett knew "Billy-the-Kid" in his early days in New Mexico, and "The Kid" was a major player in the Lincoln County War.
In February 1908, Pat Garrett was out with a couple of friends, and had dismounted the buggy to relieve himself, and was shot through the back of the head.
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 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid at tedstrong.com
Opposite him as Pat Garrett was James Coburn, a bit player from Major Dundee, who was possessed of gaunt cheeks, gray-white hair and a gravelly voice.
Not only was Pat Garrett a former confederate of Billy the Kid, he was also the man forced through changing circumstances to run-off, or else kill, his friend.
Budgeted at $3 million, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid was finally delivered to theaters in July 1973 for a cost of $4,638,783 (7).
www.tedstrong.com /patgarrett2.shtml   (2413 words)

  
 Drifting out of the Territory: Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a film about betrayal, about the extent to which people can remain true to themselves in the face of changing times.
If Garrett and the Kid are the opposite poles of reaction to the changes occurring around them, their extremes are put into contrast by a number of other characters' reactions.
While we achieve a certain closeness to Garrett and his psychology, the near mythical status of the distant, slightly enigmatic Kid is highlighted by the fact that he is frequently being sung about on the ballad-like soundtrack rather than being fleshed out as a character.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/13/garrett.html   (3558 words)

  
 Sheriff Pat Garrett
JUNE 5, 1850 - Pat Garrett is born in Chambers County, Alabana, one of seven children, the son of John Lumpkin Garrett and Elizabeth Ann Jarvis Garrett, farmers.
NOVEMBER 2, 1880 - Pat Garrett, a Democrat, is elected sheriff of Lincoln County.
FEBRUARY 29, 1908 - Pat Garrett and Carl Adamson, a brother-in-law of Miller, are in a buckboard and bound from the Garrett ranch to Las Cruces for a con- ference with Miller.
www.las-cruces.com /html/sheriff_pat_garrett.html   (776 words)

  
 THE HIGH HAT | NITRATE: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
As it turns out the body of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is only a shutter-quick memory of events relived in the time it takes a dying man to hit the ground: at the moment of his assassination, Garrett’s mind rewinds 27 years until he’s faced with his own culpability in his own murder.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid’s biggest liability is the fl hole at its center, with the idea of Billy the Kid so torn between Wurlitzer’s, Peckinpah’s and Kris Kristofferson’s conceptions of him that he resembles a hologram baseball card whose image changes at every different angle.
The whole film has a suicide’s reek, and the sight of Garrett shooting a bullet across time into his own body, or blasting his mirror image with a handgun, only adds to the feeling that the director is punishing his own flesh for sacrificing some younger, better side of himself.
www.thehighhat.com /Nitrate/002/pat_garrett.html   (3859 words)

  
 Pat Garrett
Pat Garrett was born in Chambers County, Alabama on June 5, 1850.
On November 7, 1880, Garrett was appointed Lincoln County Sheriff.
Garrett was visiting his old friend Pete Maxwell, to see if he knew anything about where the outlaw might be hiding.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/old_west/53541   (418 words)

  
 Pat Garrett - The Hunter's Life
Pat Garrett at that time entered the kitchen with his gun drawn.
Pat Garrett, fired his pistol at the sound of the voice, thus ending the young life of the West's most famous gunman...
Garner procured Pat Garrett a seat on the Commissioners Court in Uvalde County.
thehunterslife.com /forums/showthread.php?t=334   (260 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Pat F. Garrett's the Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid: Books: Pat F. Garrett,Frederick W. Nolan   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Pat Garrett version of the War was almost entirely written by Roswell postmaster, Ash Upson, and was designed to improve Garrett's lot in the eyes of history as well as to further his political fortune.
Consequently, Garrett's version has always been suspect amoung serious historical scholars although it is one of the most frequently quoted sources of "facts" related to the Kid.
Garrett's seemingly singlehanded resolution of the problem by killing the Kid after the two primary proponents of the Regulator faction, John Henery Tunstall and Alexander McSween, were killed by members of the Murphy, Fritz and Dolan faction, is placed into historical prespective by Dolan's meticulous research and readable language..
www.amazon.ca /Pat-Garretts-Authentic-Life-Billy/dp/0806132272   (1012 words)

  
 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
An aging Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons--his sole purpose being to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a unique western.
The leading performances of James Coburn (Garrett) and Kris Kristofferson (Billy) are rather colourless, but the subsidiary characters are beautifully delineated.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0070518   (545 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid: Video: James Coburn,Kris Kristofferson,R.G. Armstrong,Luke Askew,John Beck ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Pat Garrett, erstwhile travelling companion of the outlaw Billy the Kid has become a sheriff, tasked by cattle interests with ridding the territory of Billy.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is one of the darkest of films; death and loss seem to pervade every scene.
Pat and Billy were both part of that lawless breed, and the film is a tragic tale of the doomed ways they both try to cope with the changing West - Pat by trying to adapt to the new order, and Billy by trying to ignore it altogether.
www.amazon.com /Pat-Garrett-Billy-James-Coburn/dp/630197204X   (3535 words)

  
 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid; Special Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Garrett has to tell Billy he's going to arrest him if he doesn't leave town, but Billy doesn't listen and is eventually apprehended.
Billy skirts Garrett's pursuit, and the two seem engaged in some kind of dance — Garrett doesn't seem to want to complete his mission as the two try to avoid the gravitational pull that must lead to their unavoidable showdown.
As is almost too obvious by the end, after Pat Garrett shoots Billy, he shoots a mirror, symbolically killing himself and bringing the narrative full-circle.
www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/p/patgarrettandbtk.q.shtml   (882 words)

  
 Pat Garrett   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Garrett and others tracked him down and finally caught up with him July 14.
It was relatively easy to put pressure on him because Garrett still had money troubles and Cox still held a lien on his land for the money he’d loaned him.
Garrett agreed, but said he would have to get Brazel would of there first.
members.aol.com /Gibson0817/garrett.htm   (1104 words)

  
 Pat Garrett - susning.nu   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Pat Garrett föds som ett av sju syskon.
Det var där Garrett växte upp och gick i skola.
Garrett lyckas dock efter en drygt två månader lång jakt finna och döda Bonney i Fort Sumner den 15 juli.
www.susning.nu /Pat_Garrett   (558 words)

  
 Pat Garrett- DesertUSA
Garrett’s deputies hauled Billy to Lincoln, the scene of many of his crimes, and locked him in the county jail.
Garrett worked his way through a minefield of potentially violent encounters, and finally, he arrested Oliver Lee and a ranch hand, Jim Gilliland, charged them with the murder of Fountain and his child, and saw them tried before a court in Hillsboro, New Mexico.
Garrett, fifty seven years old, contentious, and hard pressed to provide for his large family and to meet obligations to creditors, put his ranch up for sale.
www.desertusa.com /mag00/jul/papr/gar.html   (2292 words)

  
 Pat Garrett - An Unlucky Lawman
Born in Chambers County, Alabama on June 5, 1850, Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett was one of seven children born to John and Elizabeth Garrett.
On December 15, 1880, Governor Wallace put a $500 reward on Billy's head and Pat Garrett began the relentless pursuit of the outlaw.
Garrett set-up many traps and ambushes in an attempt to apprehend Billy, but the Kid seemed to have an animal instinct that warned him of danger.
www.legendsofamerica.com /WE-PatGarrett.html   (1212 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Pat Garrett, lawman, was born on June 5, 1850, in Chambers County, Alabama, the son of John Lumpkin and Elizabeth Ann (Jarvis) Garrett.
To Garrett was subsequently attributed The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, published in 1882, although Garrett's closest friend, Marshall Ashmun (Ash) Upson, claimed to have written every word.
Garrett was originally buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Las Cruces.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/fga30.html   (552 words)

  
 Garrett tour   (Site not responding. Last check: )
At Chalk Hill on WSMR, Leon Metz, author of Pat Garrett - Story of a Western Lawman, describes the events of the discovery of the Fountain wagon and other evidence, and his efforts to discover information about where the the bodies of the two were hidden.
Rob Cox, current owner of the Cox Ranch, recounted the story of Pat Garrett and a deputy arriving at the ranch headquarters and gunning down a suspect.
After they left the store, on the way to Las Cruces, Pat Garrett was shot and killed.
www.zianet.com /dachs/garretttour.html   (358 words)

  
 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
A low-key appraisal of the legend, and the times in which he lived, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a strange and convincing Western.
His one-time partner Pat Garrett (James Coburn) has just been elected Sheriff and Pat's first duty is to run Billy out of the country.
To every scene in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid there is a background, where unknown folk play cards, cook food, make love and shepherd their children.
www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Pat_Garrett.html   (868 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Two-Disc Special Edition): DVD: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid may be the most beautiful and ambitious film that Sam Peckinpah ever made.
Coburn's Garrett, a man who comes to loathe himself for his mission yet cannot abandon it, is the high-water mark of the actor's career.
The Director's Cut of "Pat Garrett" is a big improvement over the original theatrical version which had been cut drastically by MGM when it first appeared in 1973.
www.amazon.ca /Garrett-Billy-Kid-Two-Disc-Special/dp/B000BT96DC   (1527 words)

  
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 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Peckinpah's last Western film, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid can be viewed as a tribute to the genre he loved.
Billy and his gang are pursued by a former friend turned lawman, Pat Garrett (James Coburn).
The film is really more about the Garrett character, and how he views the decline of the Old West under the encroachment of the industrialized East.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Academy/1912/garrett.html   (315 words)

  
 Pat Garrett
Garrett also served as sheriff of Dona Ana County, New Mexico (1896–1902), and as collector of customs in El Paso, Texas (1902–06).
Pat Garrett was shot dead by Wayne Brazel on February 29, 1908, near his Las Cruces, New Mexico ranch.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as I knew them; reminiscences of John P. Meadows.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0761946.html   (336 words)

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