93. Clint, ch. 18: War’s Aftermath.
94. Clint.
95. Clint.
96. LEVITICUS 16:7.
97. Clint.
98. Smith, ch. 12: The Ring Regroups.
99. LEVITICUS 16:8.
100. Governor Lewis Wallace in a letter to Colonel Edward Hatch March 7, 1879, Lew Wallace Papers, Indiana Historical society. Can be also located in Maurice Garland Fulton’s, History Of The Lincoln County War, page 337.
101. Smith.
102. Clint.
103. LEVITICUS 16:9.
104. Las Vegas Gazette, December 3, 1880. This is the first known printed reference to “Billy the Kid,” who had previously been referred to as Billy Bonney or simply “the Kid.”
105. Bonney to Wallace, letter, Fort Sumner, December 12, 1880 (Indiana Historical Society).
106. Las Vegas Gazette, December 13, 1880.
107. Seagraves.
108. Burns.
109. LEVITICUS 16:15.
110. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Paramount, 1962.
111. Billy the Kid vs. Frankenstein, Prince Productions, 1966.
112. Kid vs. Frankenstein.
113. Kid vs. Frankenstein.
114. Kid vs. Frankenstein.
115. Kid vs. Frankenstein.
116. Patrick Kennedy of Lincoln, New Mexico, “Letter to the Editor,” Billy The Kid Monthly.
117. Kennedy.
118. Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1962, ch. 1: Address at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Because, for the first time in history, Turner stressed the full historical impact of western expansion and how the frontier experience affected American development, this famous essay is considered by many historians to be the most influential of its generation. Turner’s analysis of the American mind is still widely held today by both Americans as well as the world at large.
119. Miguel Atanacio Martinez, Captura Del Chivato Nefario (The Capture of the Nefarious Billy the Kid), Sablow & Sons Music Publishing, translated by Jacob R. Sablow, 1936. Sablow, a Russian Immigrant, makes a sincere attempt to remain 100% true to the spirit and beauty of the original Mexican Spanish, but some minor liberties were taken in order to maintain a remotely similar rhyme scheme. Unfortunately, this haunting ballad was never recorded, but for interested guitarists the chords are simple.
Andante espressivo
Time: 8/8
Strum: 123-123-12 (down/down/up)
Chords:
A-A-E-E
E-E-A-A
A-A-E-E
E-E-A-A
D-D-A-A
D-D-A-A
A-A-E-E
E-E-A-A
120. Martínez.
121. Martínez.
122. Martínez.
123. Martínez.
124. Martínez.
125. Martínez.
126. Martínez.
127. James H. East, in an interview with J. Evetts Haley, September 27, 1927 Douglas, Arizona (on file: Haley Historical Center, Midland, Texas). East was one of the ‘Texas cowboys’ Pat Garrett recruited to assist in the capture of the outlaws. He covinced them to join up by fabricating a story that the Kid was in the possession of cattle missing from several outfits of the Three Rivers region which was mostly settled by Texans. After realizing Garrett’s ruse, the Texans stayed on to ensure that “the job was done square.”
128. East.
129. East.
130. East.
131. East.
132. Las Vegas Gazette, December 28, 1980.
133. LEVITICUS 16:10.
134. Gazette.
135. Gazette.
136. Gazette.
137. Gazette.
138. Gazette.
139. Las Vegas Gazette.
140. LEVITICUS 16:11.
141. Dr. Henry F. Hoyt, Wild West Doctor, Chapter 7: West of the Pecos, Again.
142. Las Cruces Semi-Weekly, April 18, 1981.
143. Hoyt.
144. LEVITICUS 16:26.
145. Sallie Chisum, Diary, Chavez County Historical Society.
146. LEVITICUS 16:27.
147. LEVITICUS 16:28.
148. J. Frank Dobie, “Billy the Kid,” Southwest Review, Spring, 1929.
149. Boorman, Real Cowboys, Part III: Tall Tales, “Libertad Para José Chávez y Chávez.”
150. Boorman.
151. Boorman.
152. Letter to Wilfred (Willie) Preston Smith from Frank B. Coe, friend and former Regulator, May 6, 1926. Coe was responding to a letter by Smith who had been introduced to the Kid in El Paso and wanted to learn more, first hand, about the man he met shortly so many years ago, but had left a lasting impression.
153. Garrett, The Authentic Life, ch. 5: Slaughtering Indians with an Ax.
154. Boorman, Real Cowboys, Part II: Sayings, “Horses” (special heading).
155. “Mustang,” Cooper’s New Collegiate Dictionary 1994 Edition, Timothy Cooper, ed.
156. Aviva Belsky, The Most Wonderful World of Horses, ch. 8: Wild Horses.
157. Belsky.
158. “Pinto,” Cooper’s.
159. Boorman.
160. Coe, “A Friend Comes to the Defense of Billy The Kid.”
161. Guadalupe Baca De Gallegos, Las Vegas, New Mexico, (EKM/FWOP).
162. Mesilla Territorial Court, April 13, 1881, 5:15 P.M. at the trial for the murder of William Brady, Sheriff of Lincoln County. It is worthy of note that the court had to appoint a lawyer to defend the alleged leader of an army of outlaws, because Billy had no money to hire one for himself. The lawyer hired to defend Billy, Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, was a friend of both Judge Bristol and Sheriff Brady, the murdered man. Along with S.B. Newcomb, the prosecuting attorney; Thomas B. Catron, Head of the Sante Fe Ring; and James J. Dolan, the Ring’s operative in Lincoln County; all six were members of the same Masonic lodge. Of all the murders and outrages committed during the Lincoln County War (50 men had been indicted), Billy was the only individual not given amnesty.
163. Burns, Saga, ch. 17.
164. Burns.
165. Waldo Thomas Flayderman, Billy The Kid’s Last Ride, Western Adventures Library.
166. Flayderman.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCES
BOOKS
Belsky, Aviva, The Most Wonderful World of Horses, Van Taylor Press, Brooklyn, New York, 1986.
Burke, Sir Laurence, Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage Baronetage Knightage 1826, Shaw Publishing Company, London, England, 1954 reprint.
Burns, Walter Noble, The Saga of Billy the Kid, Doubleday, New York, 1925.
Boorman, James W., Real Cowboys Love Horses, Dogs and Women (In That Order): A Dictionary of Cowboy Myths, Sayings and Tall Tales, Country Mud Press, Syracuse, New York, 1983.
Clint, Donald, The Lincoln County War: A Narrative, University of Roswell Press, New Mexico, 1989.
Coe, George, Frontier Fighter, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1951.
Gordon, Andrew, (ed.) Federal Writers Outreach Program of 1936-38, Our America Publications, Bronx, New York, 1990.
Cooper, Timothy, (ed.) Cooper’s New Collegiate Dictionary 1994 Edition, Kabuki Press, Bronx, New York, 1994.
Flayderman, Waldo Thomas, Billy the Kid’s Last Ride, Western Adventure Library, Vol XIV, No. 2, New York, 1912.
Fulton, Maurice Garland, History of the Lincoln County War, ed. Robert N. Mullin, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1968.
Garrett, Patrick, The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, The Noted Desperado of the Southwest, New Mexican Printing and Publishing Company, 1882.
The Holy Bible, King James Version (The Old Testament), American Bible Society, New York.
Hoyt, Dr. Henry F., Wild West Doctor, American Frontier Press, New York, 1929.
Smith, Winfred Wilson, Range War: The Settling of Lincoln County, University of Roswell Press, New Mexico, 1991.
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nbsp; Otero, Miguel Antonio, The Real Billy the Kid with New Light on the Lincoln County War, Rufus Rockwell Wilson Inc., New York, 1936.
Vignette, Andre, The Tragic Short Life of Billy the Kid, Las Cruces Press, New Mexico, 1939.
NEWSPAPERS
Arizona Weekly Star, Tucson, August 23, 1877.
El Paso Times, Texas, September 26, 1923.
Las Cruces Semi-Weekly, April 18, 1881.
Las Vegas Gazette, New Mexico, December 3, 13, 28, 1880.
Lincoln County Leader, New Mexico, January 15, 1890.
New York Post, 1992-4 conclusive.
New York Daily News, 1993-4 conclusive.
MAGAZINES
Buchanan, Steven and David, “Billy the Kid: The Early Years,” The Historical West, Winter, 1988.
Dobie, Frank J., “Billy the Kid,” Southwest Review, Spring, 1929.
Dean, James William, “The Lincoln County War: It’s Role in Settling the West,” The Western Revisionist, Part One, Vol. 22, No. 3 and Part Two, Vol 22, No. 4 (1983).
Kennedy, Patrick, “Letter to the Editor,” Billy the Kid Monthly, Vol. XXIV, No. II (1971).
Nutley, Marshall R., “Billy the Kid: Fact or Fiction?” The Western Revisionist, Vol. 29, No. 2 (1990)
Seagraves, Thomas Milton, “Billy the Kid and the Myth of History,” The American Mind, Vol. 48, No. 2 (1986).
MOVIES
Billy the Kid vs. Frankenstein, Prince Productions, 1966, 80 minutes, color.
Billy the Kid Wanted Dead or Alive, Empire Pictures, 1939, 76 minutes, black and white.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Paramount, 1962, 122 minutes, black and white.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, M-G-M, 1973, 106 minutes, color.
MUSIC
Dean, Billy, Billy the Kid, Liberty Records.
Dylan, Bob, Billy, Columbia Broadcasting System, 1973, from the soundtrack album to Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (M-G-M, 1973).
PLAYS
Upson, Marshall Ashmun, The Tragedy of Billy the Kid, unpublished original, Los Alamos Library, New Mexico.
RADIO
WKZY, “Morning News Update,” Radio Broadcast, New York, 14, July 1965.
GOVERNMENTAL OFFICES
Robert Rodriguez, U.S. Congressman, New Mexico.
National Archives & Records Center, Central Research Room Branch, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Immigration in Washington, D.C. & Sante Fe, New Mexico.
FOREIGN OFFICES
National Library of Mexico, Miguel Alonzo Valasquez, Assistant Keeper of Records, Mexico City.
MICROFILM
1860 New York City: Wards 1,2,3,4 in New York.
1881 New Mexico: Territorial Census. Annals of Old Fort Cummings, Apache Indian Wars, Roll 500-30.
CITY & STATE OFFICES, LIBRARIES, AND MUSEUMS
Billy the Kid Museum, Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
Buffalo Bill Historic Center, Cody, Wyoming.
J. Evetts Haley Historical Center, Midland, Texas.
Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, Indiana.
New Mexico County Clerks Office.
New Mexico District Court: Chavez, De Baca, Doña Ana, Lincoln, San Miguel.
New Mexico Department of Public Health, Division of Vital Statistics, Sante Fe.
New Mexico State Library, Western History Department.
New Mexico State Museum, Lincoln.
New York City: Municipal Archives and Records Center.
New York City Public Library, 42nd Street Branch.
COUNTIES SEARCHED
New Mexico: Chavez, De Baca, Doña Ana, Lincoln, San Migel.
New York: Kings.
Texas: Midland.
MISCELLANEOUS
Ash Upson letters, New Mexico State Records and Archives Center, Santa Fe.
Chisum, Sallie, diary, Chavez County Historical Society, Roswell, New Mexico.
Governor Lew Wallace papers, New Mexico State Records and Archives Center, Santa Fe.
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