History of "Billy the Kid"
By: Charles A. Siringo ; foreword by Frederick Nolan.
Contributors: University of New Mexico. Center for the American West.
Series: Historians of the frontier and American West
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Billy, the Kid; Outlaws -- Southwest, New -- Biography; Frontier and pioneer life -- Southwest, New; Southwest, New -- History -- 1848-
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Born in Texas in 1855, Siringo was a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, western writer, and Hollywood advisor until his death in 1928, and crossed the Kid's path once or twice in the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico. His account incorporates some inaccuracies but offers genuine historical nuggets such as cowboy Jim East's eyewitness account of the Kid's capture by Pat Garrett at Stinking Spring.

Enormously popular at the turn of the century, Siringo single-handedly kept Billy the Kid's flame alive until the 1920s. Historian Frederick Nolan discusses the place of Siringo's account in Billy the Kid literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Published in cooperation with the University of New Mexico Center for the American West."
Reprint. Originally published: Santa Fe, N.M. : C.A. Siringo, 1920.