• Legends of the West: The Life and Legacy of Billy the Kid

  • De: Charles River Editors
  • Narrado por: Jim Feldman
  • Duración: 1 h y 3 m
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (17 calificaciones)

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Legends of the West: The Life and Legacy of Billy the Kid

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Narrado por: Jim Feldman
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In many ways, the narrative of the Wild West has endured more as legend than reality, and a perfect example of that can be found in the legend of William Henry McCarty Jr., better known as William H. Bonney or "Billy the Kid". Indeed, separating fact from fiction when it comes to the life of the West's most famous outlaw is nearly impossible, due in great measure to the fact that the young man himself cultivated the image of a deadly outlaw and legendary gunman himself. Though Billy the Kid may have killed anywhere from four to nine men in his short life, he was often credited for killing more than 20.

With a wit as quick as his trigger, Billy the Kid had a bullet and a wisecrack for every man he killed, and his notoriety only grew when exaggerated accounts of his actions in Lincoln County eventually earned The Kid a bounty on his head. In December 1880, an ambitious buffalo hunter (and future Sheriff), Pat Garrett, helped track down and capture the famous outlaw, only for Billy the Kid to somehow escape jail shortly before his scheduled execution.

There was plenty of gunplay in the outlaw's life to help him become a well-known if not celebrated figure in the West, but the legendary and controversial nature of his death has also helped him endure. A few months after his escape from jail, Billy the Kid was hunted down by Garrett in New Mexico once again, and it's still not completely clear whether The Kid was killed by Garrett in self-defense or simply murdered outright.

Legends of the West: The Life and Legacy of Billy the Kid chronicles The Kid's life, while also analyzing his legacy and the mythology that has enveloped his story, attempting to separate fact from fiction to determine what the frontier legend was really like.

©2012 Charles River Editors (P)2015 Charles River Editors

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Billy the kid

It was a great book, my only complaint is that they did not look at brushy bill enough.

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Sounded like a term paper.

Narrator was making inflections in weird places. It sounded like someone in high school reading a term paper out loud.

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