Billy the Kid crumpled to the floor, dead. One slammed into the boy’s chest, the other rebounded from the adobe wall and splintered the headboard of Maxwell’s bed. He did not hesitate, but grabbed his six-shooter from its holster and fired two shots point-blank. The crouching form belonged to Pat Garrett, sheriff of Lincoln County, and those fateful words told Garrett exactly who faced him. He thought he was among friends, and his hesitation cost him his life. In the darkened bedroom, he could not make out the figure crouched at the head of Pete Maxwell’s bed. With those words-“Who is it? Who is it?”-the youth threw away a critical moment of time. Pat Garrett, John William Poe, and Deputy Frontier and pioneer life-Southwest, New. Summary: Examines the career of the young outlaw whose life and death were an expression of the violence prevalent on the American frontier. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Dataīilly the Kid: a short and violent life / Robert M.
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