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  THE HIGH HAT | NITRATE: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
The prelude to a duel is timed to Billy’s oral recollection of an earlier gunfight, with the present-day participants taking their cues from the older engagement as Billy recounts each step of its development, and only when the ghosts have drawn their guns in the past do the living open fire in the flesh.
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.
Billy’s good looks and refusal to buckle under may be the trademarks of a hero, but Kristofferson is most expressive in displaying the Kid’s satisfaction with his own facility for violence, a fact that invalidates Billy’s standing as a romantic rebel.
www.thehighhat.com /Nitrate/002/pat_garrett.html   (3859 words)

  
 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
IMDb > 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.
Kristofferson's easygoing and charismatic portrayal of Billy is the best work of his career, as is Coburn's sad-eyed interpretation of Pat Garrett.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0070518   (432 words)

  
 Billy the Kid - William H. Bonney - Henry McCarty
The Kid lost support from some of the town because of the brutal ambush of Brady, saying it was a cowardly act, but some say Brady and Hindman got their just reward for the cold blooded killing of the helpless and unarmed John Tunstall.
Billy, and 14 of his companions, visited Alexander McSween at his mansion in Lincoln and barricaded themselves inside, the mansion was immediately surrounded by Peppin's posse, about 40 strong of the roughest gunfighters in the territory.
Billy informed Grant as to who he was and they squared off, both pulling their weapons, but of course Grant's didn't fire and Billy killed him on the spot.
www.badhombres.com /outlaws/billy-the-kid.htm   (4739 words)

  
 The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid by Pat Garrett : Arthur's Classic Novels
Billy did, truly, love and revere his mother, and all his after life of crime was marked by deep devotion and respect for good women, born, doubtless, of his adoration for her.
Billy's partner doubtless had a name which was his legal property, but he was so given to changing it that it was impossible to fix on the right one.
Billy's entrance to the club-room was a signal for Martinez to open his money drawer, take out a six shooter, lay it on the table beside him, and commence a tirade of abuse directed against "Gringos" generally, and Billy in particular.
members.fortunecity.com /novelart/western3/billyk10.html   (20296 words)

  
 THE KID
Billy the Kid is one of the best known characters of the Old West.
Billy arrived in Lincoln, NM during a time when the Murphy-Dolan Faction and John Tunstall were trying to secure beef contracts with the military in Fort Stanton.
The Kid used the old Mill as a hideout and was the sight of a shootout with Pat Garrett.
western.freeservers.com /billy.html   (1095 words)

  
 Southern New Mexico Travel and Tourism Information: Billy the Kid Museum in Fort Sumner
Billy the Kid Museum is located in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, on Highway 60-84, 2 miles East of downtown.
Billy the Kid was a frequent visitor in Fort Sumner, where the 21-year-old outlaw was shot to death in 1881 by Lincoln County Sheriff, Pat Garrett.
Billy the Kid is known all over the world and has great appeal as an outlaw legend.
www.southernnewmexico.com /BusinessDirectory/Museums/BillytheKidMuseum.html   (1034 words)

  
 Billy the Kid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Billy was working at the Coe ranch one of the smaller ranches infringing on Chisum's space.
It was about this time that Billy met Pat Garrett, who then was a bartender for Beaver Smith's saloon/gambling hall.
Billy was tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang in Mesilla by Judge Warren Bristol, suspected of being on the payroll of the Santa Fe ring and the Dolan gang.
hometown.aol.com /Gibson0817/BillytheKid.htm   (1395 words)

  
 Brushy Bill Roberts ("Billy the Kid")   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Billy became a cattle thief and a murderer, known to have killed 21 men, including Sheriff William Brady for which he received a death sentence.
Billy the Kid fought against rich ranchers in the Lincoln County Cattle War.
Billy the Kid skipped town and Barlow's body was buried the next day in a simple grave.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~heddins/Stanbery/images/FamilyPhotos/BrushyBillRoberts.htm   (283 words)

  
 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
At its helm was the iconoclastic auteur, Sam Peckinpah, a likable analog to Billy the Kid.
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.
Billy and his gang are seen shooting the chickens when Pat rides up for some whiskey and to tell Billy how things have changed.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/03/25/garrett_and_billy.html   (2312 words)

  
 BILLY THE KID : les sites dédiés à BILLY THE KID - Annuaire-Celebrite.com
Il s'impose alors très vite comme chef de bande et se lie d'amitié avec Pat Garrett.
Ce dernier est bientôt nommé shérif et obtient pour mission de capturer le Kid.
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www.annuaire-celebrite.com /celebrite/1812/billy_the_kid/billy_the_kid.php   (219 words)

  
 Pat Garrett a Billy the Kid / Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid / Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Zatímco Billy The Kid zůstal psancem, Pat Garrett dávno pochopil, že tato éra skončila a postavil se na stranu zákona.
Billy nevěří, že to šerif Pat myslí vážně, neposlechne a nakonec se zabarikáduje ve starém srubu.
Místní honorace si takové jednání nechce nechat líbit - Pat je předvolán ke guvernérovi a ten mu položí nůž na krk: buď Billyho dopadne a definitivně zlikviduje, nebo přijde o podporu všech, kteří nad ním dosud drželi ochrannou ruku...
www.sms.cz /film/pat_garrett_a_billy_the_kid   (222 words)

  
 The Night Pat Garrett (Probably) Shot Billy the Kid
Billy knew that he could count on them for a bunk and a meal in their adobe homes and sheep camps.
Billy says that is what I thought of you, you old long legged son of a bitch…” (The quote appeared in the Angelfire Internet site’s article “Billy the Kid’s Capture at Stinking Springs.) Billy and his gang soon starved out.
Billy shoots the deputy, leaving him to stagger outside and collapse, dying almost immediately in the arms of a passerby named Godfrey Gauss.
www.desertusa.com /mag04/july/billy.html   (2876 words)

  
 Henry McCarty: The Wild West's "Billy the Kid" by Joseph Geringer
Little is known about Billy the Kid's genesis, except that he came into this world (according to his own testimony) in an Irish section of the Bowery slums of New York City sometime (it is estimated) between September and November, 1859.
Billy is supposed to have killed his first men near the Guadalupe Mountains in 1876 when he mistook a couple of reservation Apaches for (as he said) "unfriendlies".
On August 17, 1877, he is supposed to have, according to legend, first heard himself called "Billy the Kid," a name that would forever brand him and unite him with the zenith players in the saga of the Old West.
www.crimelibrary.com /americana/kid/2.htm   (1675 words)

  
 Another Version: How Garrett Found the Kid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Sheriff Pat Garrett was tipped off to Billy the Kid's presence at Fort Sumner by German immigrant Solomon Floersheim, who was working as a traveling collector in New Mexico Territory at the time.
He was afraid Billy might change his mind, kill him and the Spanish man and take their belongings, so my father drove all night on the road toward the ranch he was to visit and did not take any chances.
Pat had my father stay at his home a few hours for rest after my father had explained to him what brought him to his ranch at such an early hour.
www.historynet.com /we/blhowgarrettfoundthekid   (685 words)

  
 Pat Garrett- DesertUSA
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 wrote Hough a last letter, blaming all his problems on the killing of that favorite son, Billy the Kid.
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)

  
 Term-Papers.us - The Life Of Pat Garret
(Garrett was not in the Lincoln County War.) On November 2nd, 1880, Pat Garrett, a Democrat, is elected sheriff of Lincoln County.
Pat Garrett and his posse trap Billy the Kid and others in a one-room rock house at Stinking Springs, near Fort Sumner on December 20th-21st, 1880.
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.
www.term-papers.us /ts/ac/bqg317.shtml   (888 words)

  
 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Peckinpah shapes his Billy the Kid as a cruel, treacherous murderer, as well as a nasty hooligan: most likely, the way the actual Billy was.
Nonetheless, the director tries to stick him a sort of romantic aura: he seemingly prefers death either to live in a new world he doesn't recognize himself in, or to abandon his mates, or something like that.
Despite its defects, "Pat Garret and Billy the Kid" is a beautiful movie, a must-see for everybody fond of great cinema.
us.imdb.com /Title?0070518   (537 words)

  
 Sideshow Toys' Billy The Kid
Very nice photograph of a modern gun holster which Billy The Kid never used, and the inside flap has a brief biography of Billy The Kid, who was shot dead at the age of 21 by Pat Garrett.
The Headsculpt is supposed to be of Billy The Kid, but it looks like one of the Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, or a typical character on Buffy or maybe it is Angel's son??
Billy has a handgun and holster that looks like it was made for the 9" Action Jackson figures.
www.actionheroes.homestead.com /reviewsninetyseven.html   (412 words)

  
 Henry McCarty: The Wild West's "Billy the Kid" by Joseph Geringer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Billy's notches may not have passed a total of four.
It is to his credit, not the journalists who fancied him, that even though he was born as far as one can get from the cacti -- in New York City -- he became the epitome of the rambunctious, stirrup-strapped cowpoke who rode to the sound of the guns.
With this in mind, permit me to open every chapter with a few lines from a song that Billy the Kid, while traveling the West of the 1870s, undoubtedly heard 'round the campfire, in the saloons or played on a honky-tonk piano in a vaudeville.
www.crimelibrary.com /americana/kid   (1033 words)

  
 Billy the kid - Handbook of Texas Online:
Billy the Kid - The Outlaw at the center of the Lincoln County War.
Billy the Kid Museum in Fort Sumner, NM is one of more than 15400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory.
“Billy, the childminder phoned, she was at the toddler group with Ash and was dealing A kid had climbed up onto Ash’s buggy and bit her on the head.
siteshomes.com /sshs/billy-the-kid.html   (1302 words)

  
 tedstrong.com
Since I was a kid one of my all time fav character actors was Charles Lane.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid by Garrett Chaffin-Quiray.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid by Tom Block.
tedstrong.com   (1269 words)

  
 Accommodations in NM - Wortley Pat garrett Hotel - Lincoln, New Mexico Territory. lodging, inn, near Roswell, Ruidoso, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In fact, it was here that Deputy Marshal Robert Olinger was having lunch on April 28, 1881, the day that his famous prisoner, Billy the Kid, made his escape from the Lincoln County Courthouse.
Having heard the gunshot from the jail, Olinger quickly left the hotel to check on his prisoner, and was killed by Billy the Kid as he entered the side yard of the Court House.
Famous sheriff Pat Garrett was the owner of the Wortley Hotel when he was immortalized as the man who killed Billy the Kid.
www.wortleyhotel.com /new-mexico-hotel.htm   (490 words)

  
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Tuska provides a carefully documented biography of the Kid, and a chronology of the events surrounding his life and death.
This is the story of people who built America, crossing a wilderness to create a nation, and the history of the old trail itself.
Centuries before Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid rode onto the scene.
www.research-unlimited.com /old_west.html   (5899 words)

  
 Pat Garrett
, Pat Garrett left his family's plantation in Louisiana in 1869 to become a buffalo hunter in Texas.
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.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0761946.html   (213 words)

  
 Big Screen Bob
Dylan plays Billy Parker, jaded ex-rock star who retires to a small town to become a chicken farmer.
As evident by the title, this is director Sam Peckinpah's interpretation of the story of Billy the Kid.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid has more to commend it than Dylan's small role, but the facts surrounding the Kid are not entirely honored.
www.new-pony.com /bigscreen.html   (936 words)

  
 "The Spirit of the Wild West - Travel and Attractions in the Old West - Collectibles Guns Swords Militaria Firearms"
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as I Knew Them Author: John P. Wilson
Pat F. Garrett's the Authentic Life of Billy the Kid Author: Pat F. Garrett, Frederick W. Nolan
Billy the Kid Author: Roger A. Bruns; $26.60
www.thespiritoftheoldwest.com /AAA-History.htm   (509 words)

  
 Lincoln, New Mexico, Drawing, Billy the Kid Killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Pat Garrett tracked Billy with intensity fueled by reward money.
Billy's body was buried in the old cemetery near Fort Sumner.
In the early 1900's, the County Seat was moved from Lincoln to Carrizozo and Lincoln's population fell to 60.
www.huntel.com /%7Eartpike/billy5.htm   (93 words)

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