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CHASING BILLY


April 17 - This Day in the History of a Legend
April 17, 1903 He Looked So Green - The Niobrara Pioneer, Niobrara, Nebraska, p. 3. Pat Garrett, collector of customs at El Paso, Tex.,...
James Townsend
Apr 17, 20241 min read
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Fort Sumner Straw-Man: the Elephant in the Room
One of the most common tactics of a Brushy Believer, when it comes to defending their position, is the immediate hijacking of any...
James Townsend
Dec 15, 20232 min read
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Vicente Otero Remembers July 14
Below is a first-person adaptation from an interview and narrative found in Bryan Howard's True Tales of the American Southwest: Pioneer...
James Townsend
Dec 23, 20222 min read
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Tom Folliard's Brother?
Thomas Folliard (not O'Folliard, not O'Phallier, etc.) was Billy the Kid's dedicated pal; his "ride or die," as some would say, and...
James Townsend
Aug 24, 20224 min read
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Stinking Spring: A Jim East Account
The following is an account of the pursuit and capture of Billy the Kid and company, provided by Jim East, and published in the Galveston...
James Townsend
Aug 16, 20224 min read
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Charles Rourke's Recollections of the Kid
"The people around Lincoln say Garrett didn't kill Billie the Kid. John Poe was with Garrett the night he was supposed to have killed the...
James Townsend
Jul 28, 20221 min read
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You're No Man-Eater
"The first time I saw Pat Garrett, we had an argument. I had been in Roswell... When I returned there was a gate wired up. In those days...
James Townsend
Jul 28, 20222 min read
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Various Accounts of July 14, 1881
“[I] went to Mr. P. Maxwell’s room. I found him in bed, and I had just commenced to talk to him about the object of my visit at such an...
James Townsend
Jul 17, 20227 min read
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Pat Garrett, the Lone Rider, Approaches Wallace
You can't believe everything you read in the papers. For instance, take this bit from the El Paso Times of January 25, 1894, out of El...
James Townsend
Jun 27, 20221 min read
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A Reporter Remembers Garrett
From a somewhat lengthy article titled "The Career of Pat Garrett," which appeared in the Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia, on March...
James Townsend
Jun 26, 20222 min read
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