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Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life by Robert M. Utley 1991 PB
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- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Type
- Biography
- Era
- 1800s
- Region
- American Southwest
- Country
- USA
- Subjects
- History & Military
- Modified Item
- No
- ISBN
- 9780803295582
- Book Title
- Billy the Kid : a Short and Violent Life
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Year
- 1991
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Features
- Reprint
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- United States / 19th Century, General, Criminals & Outlaws
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Item Weight
- 14.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 342 Pages
About this product
Product Information
Whatever his name or alias at the moment--Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim, Billy Bonney--people always called him the Kid. Not until his final month did anyone call him Billy the Kid. Newspapers pictured him as a king of outlaws; and his highly publicized capture, trial, escape, and end fixed his image in the public mind for all time. He was only twenty-one years old when a bullet from Sheriff Pat Garett's six-shooter killed him on July 14, 1881. Within a year Billy the Kid became the subject of five dime-novel "biographies" as well as Garett's ghost-written account, and that was just the beginning. Robert M. Utley does what countless books, movies, television shows, musical compositions, and paintings have failed to do: he successfully strips off the veneer of legendry to expose the reality of Billy the Kid. Using previously untapped sources, he presents an engrossing story--the most complete and accurate ever--of a youthful hoodlum and sometime killer who found his calling in New Mexico's bloody power struggle known as the Lincoln County War. In unmasking the legend Utley also tells us much about our heritage of frontier vigilantism and violence.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803295588
ISBN-13
9780803295582
eBay Product ID (ePID)
472598
Product Key Features
Book Title
Billy the Kid : a Short and Violent Life
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
United States / 19th Century, General, Criminals & Outlaws
Publication Year
1991
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
342 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F786.B54
Edition Description
Reprint
Reviews
"In the last three decades, scholarship about Billy has shaken off its pulp origins and become professional, the best three books, in my view, being Robert M. Utley''s Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life (1989), Frederick Nolan''s The West of Billy the Kid (1998), and now Michael Wallis''s Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride."-Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books, "It's certain to remain the authoritative biography that at last makes the Kid's life whole and understandable."-- San Francisco Chronicle, "A gripping, compelling yarn you can't afford to miss. This is the western book of the year--any year."-- Books of the Southwest, "In the last three decades, scholarship about Billy has shaken off its pulp origins and become professional, the best three books, in my view, being Robert M. Utley''s Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life (1989), Frederick Nolan''s The West of Billy the Kid (1998), and now Michael Wallis''s Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride ."-Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books, "Utley deftly slices away the veneer of legend to reveal the flesh-and-blood young man a tragic figure who was neither a mythical hero nor a ruthless killer, but a rather ordinary outlaw whose career did not live up to his reputation."-Michael Wallis, True West, "In the last three decades, scholarship about Billy has shaken off its pulp origins and become professional, the best three books, in my view, being Robert M. Utley's Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life (1989), Frederick Nolan's The West of Billy the Kid (1998), and now Michael Wallis's Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride ."-Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books, "Historian Robert M. Utley has provided us with the best portrait to date of the real Kid, from his shrouded origins in New York City to the escalating criminal career that ended only when lawman Pat Garrett surprised him with a bullet. . . . Utley's [book] is valuable both for its careful separation of fact from fiction . . . and for its thoughtful treatment of the Kid as an American frontier symbol."-- Washington Post, http://nebraskapress.typepad.com/university_of_nebraska_pr/2010/08/a-pardon-for-billy-the-kid-.html ""In the last three decades, scholarship about Billy has shaken off its pulp origins and become professional, the best three books, in my view, being Robert M. Utley's Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life (1989), Frederick Nolan's The West of Billy the Kid (1998), and now Michael Wallis's Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride .""--Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books ""Utley deftly slices away the veneer of legend to reveal the flesh-and-blood young man a tragic figure who was neither a mythical hero nor a ruthless killer, but a rather ordinary outlaw whose career did not live up to his reputation.""--Michael Wallis, True West, "Noteworthy for its massive research, exciting reconstruction of several gun battles, and Utley's refusal to be suckered into the Kid-as-Hero myth."-- Kirkus Reviews
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
89-030022
Dewey Decimal
364.1/552/0924 B
Dewey Edition
92
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