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The Gospel According to Billy the Kid: A Novel
By (author) Dennis McCarthy
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Like many good stories of the old West, this one begins in a saloon. In 1914 in El Paso, Texas, two strangers strike up a conversation at the bar--Bill Roberts, a real-life figure who died in Hico, Texas, in 1950, and a former US Army scout whose brother knew Roberts by another name: Billy the Kid. So begins The Gospel According to Billy the Kid, a tale of the old New Mexico territory, corrupt lawmen, honest ranchers, murder, betrayal, and the explosive events of the Lincoln County War that sent young Billy off seeking justice--and headed toward a bloody rendezvous with a sheriff hired to track him down. In the saloon Roberts has us imagine another story, told thirty-three years later over shots of whiskey, about a young outlaw given a second chance to find himself, to find peace, and to finally grow up and out from under the shadow of his own infamy.
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Publisher | University of New Mexico Press
Published date | 30 Mar 2021
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 144
Dimensions | 213 x 198 x 12mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 230g
ISBN | 978-0-8263-6235-3
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BISAC | fiction / westerns
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