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Salvador Vargas of Chihuahua, Mexico, looks at a Winchester rifle, reportedly once owned by the Kid, during a stop at the Billy the Kid Museum in Fort Sumner. According to the museum, 25,000 people tour the collections here each year. (Mike Sandoval/For the Albuquerque Journal)
FORT SUMNER – Did Billy have a gun?
July 14 marked the 140th anniversary of the night Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett killed outlaw Billy the Kid in a darkened room of a house in Old Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
That’s a fact. Never mind what you saw in the “Young Guns II” movie, most reputable historians and researchers agree that Garrett shot the Kid to death that night. What some doubt, however, is that the Kid was carrying a gun at the time, as Garrett and others on the scene reported.
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If you love Westerns and classic gunfight in the street face offs, you can thank one guy:
Wild Bill Hickock, the first gunfighter and the founder of the feast.
All the gunfights featured in countless Westerns over the past 12 decades originated with one fight and one man. Bob Boze Bell will break it down, how this one seminal event featuring this one classic frontiersman became the foundation of the Western movie staple that continues to resonate with fans around the world.
Not only was Wild Bill the first gunfighter, he was the first celebrity who set the style that has become known as the Western Man in fact and fiction.
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“Doc Holliday is ten feet tall and weighs a ton.”
J.J. Webb at the Old Town Las Vegas Jail, 1880
This photo first came to our attention when it appeared in Frederick Nolan’s book The West of Billy the Kid. Nolan published it, in part, because the Kid spent time in this jail in December 1880, when Pat Garrett escorted him and members of his gang to Santa Fe. Recently some historians have speculated that Holliday is in the photograph, to the right of Webb (in shackles).
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The first time we saw this historical group photo taken in Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory, was in 1998 in Frederick Nolan’s book
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Get ready for an in depth look at the most famous Indian in the world and how he got there. Bob Boze Bell’s controversial book on “The Illustrated Life & Times of Geronimo” lays out the long and bloody path of Goyathlay (He Who Yawns) from warrior to celebrity to legend. With hundreds yes hundreds! of never before seen images, great maps and top notch scholarship, this is the book you need if you want to know the truth about Geronimo.
Here’s what some have to say about the book:
“Fasten your seat belt for this one! Bell’s trade-mark blend of superb artwork, authoritative research, and fast-paced prose–always accompanied by a wicked sense of humor–makes this another masterful, must-have Boze Western book.”