Wild west biographies

• To Hell on a Fast Horse

• The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett
• By: Mark Lee Gardner
• Narrated by: Graham Rowat, Alan Sklar
• Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
• Unabridged

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Billy the Kid - a.k.a. Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, and William Bonney - was a horse tjuv, cattle rustler, charismatic rogue, and cold-blooded killer. A superb shot, the Kid gunned down four dock single-handedly and five others with the help of cronies. Two of his victims were Lincoln County, New Mexico, deputies, killed during the Kid's brazen daylight escape from the courthouse jail on April 28,

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Buffalo Bill&#;s Wild West and Combination Shows Bibliography

The McCracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West suggests the following bibliography for further reading on Wild West shows.

Blackstone, Sarah J. Buckskins, Bullets, and Business: A History of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture, Number Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,

Bold, Christine. Selling the Wild West Popular Western Fiction, –. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,

Buffalo Bill, and Frank Christianson. The Wild West in England. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,

Collings, Ellsworth, and Alma Miller England. The Ranch. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,

Clark, Sarah Wood. Beautiful, Daring Western Girls: Women of the Wild West Shows. Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, , [Exhibit guide].

Cunningham, Tom F. ‘Your Fathers the Ghosts’: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Scotland. Edinburgh: Black & White,

Delaney, M

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10 Iconic Wild West Figures

The s and the s gave birth to the period known as the Wild West and laid a foundation to its ensuing mythology. It was an era of cowboys, Indians, pioneers, outlaws and gunslingers brought together by the purposes of expansion, defense, greed and reinvention.

Explore some of the legends of the Old West whose untamed spirits helped define the new frontier and the rugged individualism of America:

Billy the Kid

While not much is known of Billy the Kid's early years, he was born William Henry McCarty Jr. in the slums of New York City and was orphaned at He eventually moved out West, where his days as a Wild West outlaw and gunfighter was ripe before him.

On the lam from New Mexican authorities for stealing, Billy the Kid fled to Arizona, where he murdered a man during a fight. He returned to New Mexico and joined a group of cattle thieves and fought in the Lincoln County War.

Although he boasted of having gunned down close to two dozen men, he p