Billy the Kid - Robert M. Utley - 1991 University of Nebraska Press Paperback

Description: Billy the Kid - Robert M. Utley - 1991 University of Nebraska Press Paperback Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Jacket illustration by Ed Lindlof Jacket design by Jungsun Whang Blurb: "Historian Robert M. Utley has provided us 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 sym-bol." —Washington Post Book World. "A gripping, compelling yarn you can't afford to miss. This is the western book of the year-any year." —Books of the Southwest. "Noteworthy for its massive re-search, exciting reconstruction of several gun battles, and Utley's refusal to be suckered into the Kid-as-Hero myth." —Kirkus Reviews. "It's certain to remain the authoritative biography that at last makes the Kid's life whole and understandable." -San Francisco Chronicle. "A saga as thrilling as it is meticulously docu-mented." -Boston Globe. "An excellent book. Cool scholarship reveals a factual Billy much scarier than the one of legend." —Ian Frazier, author of The Great Plains. One of the preeminent western historians writing today, Robert M. Utley is the author of High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier, Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier and The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull, as well as Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 and Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 published by the University of Nebraska Press.” Billy the Kid - Robert M. Utley - 1991 University of Nebraska Press Paperback Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Jacket illustration by Ed Lindlof Jacket design by Jungsun Whang Blurb: "Historian Robert M. Utley has provided us 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 sym-bol." —Washington Post Book World. "A gripping, compelling yarn you can't afford to miss. This is the western book of the year-any year." —Books of the Southwest. "Noteworthy for its massive re-search, exciting reconstruction of several gun battles, and Utley's refusal to be suckered into the Kid-as-Hero myth." —Kirkus Reviews. "It's certain to remain the authoritative biography that at last makes the Kid's life whole and understandable." -San Francisco Chronicle. "A saga as thrilling as it is meticulously docu-mented." -Boston Globe. "An excellent book. Cool scholarship reveals a factual Billy much scarier than the one of legend." —Ian Frazier, author of The Great Plains. One of the preeminent western historians writing today, Robert M. Utley is the author of High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier, Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier and The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull, as well as Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 and Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 published by the University of Nebraska Press.” × × × × × × × × × × Buy now and save! Tell a friend Visit store Watch now You might also like Pinocchio-Carlo Collodi, Charles Folkard - 1916 David McKay Company hardback God's Treasure House Unlocked - Charles G. Schuh 1887 Cranston & Stowe hardback Lavender and Old Lace - Myrtle Reed 1902 Grosset & Dunlap vintage hardback Walden or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau Riverside Library edition eBay integration by

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