Tall Tales & Half Truths of Pat Garrett

by John LeMay

Overview

While many lionize Billy the Kid, the man who killed him, Sheriff Patrick Floyd Garrett, has a rarely told but riveting true story all his own. His adventurous life spawned many a far-fetched, exciting legend. In 1896, Garrett's investigation of the still-unsolved murder of Albert J. Fountain on the White Sands led to nothing but a gunfight and a dead deputy. Some say that Garrett faked the details the night the Kid was brought to ultimate justice, while others swear another wannabe hero did him in. In perfect irony, Garrett's own 1908 death is shrouded in mystery. Some report he died by the hand of Billy the Kid himself. Author John LeMay exposes fabricated tales for what they are and focuses on memories long forgotten about Billy the Kid's personal grave digger, Sheriff Pat Garrett.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781625858160
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	05/09/2016
Series:	American Legends
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

John LeMay is the author of many books on the history of Roswell, Southeastern New Mexico, and the Southwest. His most recent book, Tall Tales & Half Truths of Billy the Kid, was published in 2015. Tall Tals & Half Truths of Pat Garrett is its sequel. LeMay is a past president of the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico in Roswell.

Editorial Reviews

"Reading John Lemay's 'Tall Tales & Half Truths of Pat Garrett' you get the idea everyone living in New Mexico in the 1880s, as well as those descended from them, had or has a story about Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. And that most of those stories are different. ...Lemay sorts through this maze of lies, rumors and distortions,..." True West Magazine

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