Billy the Kid

Overview

Works:	752 works in 1,650 publications in 11 languages and 68,394 library holdings
Genres:	History Biography Poetry Biographical fiction Western fiction Bibliography Fiction Biographies Western television programs Western films
Subject Headings:	Outlaws
Roles:	Author, Singer, Performer
Classifications:	F786.B54, B

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Billy

The authentic life of Billy, the Kid : the noted desperado of the Southwest, whose deeds of daring and blood made his name a terror in New Mexico, Arizona and northern Mexico by Pat F Garrett( )
Anything for Billy by Larry McMurtry( Book )
The saga of Billy the Kid by Walter Noble Burns( )
The desperado who stole baseball by John H Ritter( Book )
Billy the Kid : a short and violent life by Robert M Utley( Book )

Billy the Kid : the endless ride by Michael Wallis( Book )
The West of Billy the Kid by Frederick W Nolan( )
To hell on a fast horse : Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the epic chase to justice in the Old West by Mark Lee Gardner( Book )
The collected works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje( Book )
Billy the Kid, his life and legend by Jon Tuska( )
The Kid by Ron Hansen( Book )
Billy the Kid by Carl R Green( Book )
Journey of the dead by Loren D Estleman( Book )
Young guns by Christopher Cain( Visual )
Lucky Billy by John Vernon( Book )
The Western hero in history and legend by Kent Ladd Steckmesser( Book )
The real Billy the Kid : with new light on the Lincoln County War by Miguel Antonio Otero( )
Copland the populist by Aaron Copland( )
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid by Sam Peckinpah( Visual )
In the shadow of Billy the Kid : Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War by Kathleen Chamberlain( )

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Most widely held works by Billy

The saga of Billy the Kid by Walter Noble Burns( Book )

9 editions published between 1926 and 1962 in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The author focuses on the Kid's life and experiences in the bloody war between the Murphy-Dolan and Tunstall-McSween gangs in and around Lincoln, New Mexico, between 1878 and 1881

To hell on a fast horse : Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the epic chase to justice in the Old West by Mark Lee Gardner( Book )

2 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"To Hell on a Fast Horse" re-creates the thrilling manhunt for the Wild West's most iconic outlaw. It is also the first dual biography of the Kid and Garrett, each a larger-than-life figure who would not have become legendary without the other

The true story of Billy the Kid : a tale of the Lincoln County war by William Lee HAMLIN( Book )

4 editions published between 1959 and 1965 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A handbook of library and audio-visual aids for the social sciences, concepts and values by Lillian K Spitzer( Book )

in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid (William H. Bonney) ... With an introduction by J.C. Dykes. (New edition, fourth printing.) [With portraits.] by Pat F Garrett( Book )

3 editions published in 1959 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Billy the Kid : the bibliography of a legend by Jeff Dykes( Book )

2 editions published in 1952 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Presumably the bibliography of a legend may be permitted as many vagaries as the legend itself. It is in that spirit, at any rate, that this volume describes not merely books but also phonograph records, a radio broadcast, motion pictures, comic books, and an advertising leaflet. Certainly the growth of the legend could not be properly portrayed without mention of these media for it is a part of the incredible story that a youth who died in New Mexico Territory in 1881 should life on in the minds of men, however inaccurately, through these modern forms of communication. The brief life of Billy the Kid is told so many times in the 437 items recorded in this volume, with so many variations, that when one has read them a new image of Billy has taken shape, different from any single presentation in the book. There is simply nothing one can do to stop a legend, because even analyzing it breathes into it a new life. In this work the author has kept his annotations remarkably well in hand. Types and prototypes march through them with surprising clarity. The collations, so faithfully set down by Mr. Dykes, are nevertheless in some respects a little wayward. Partly this is because of the nature of the material and partly it is because Mr. Dykes has produced the work--which probably could have been written by no one else--as a collector rather than as a professional bibliographer. It would have been ungracious to eliminate material that will be appreciated by his fellow enthusiasts--page 3

The stereospecific polymerization of vinylcyclohexane by Billy( )

3 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Super chIbran break, rap, scratch( Recording )

2 editions published in 1984 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The collected works of Billy the Kid : left handed poems by Michael Ondaatje( Book )

2 editions published between 1970 and 1989 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Billy the Kid is the stuff of legends are made of. Most people have settled for the easy glamour of outlaws, six-guns and frontier deaths in his story. But Michael Ondaatje, in this extraordinary new book--part novel, part poetry, has recreated a William Bonney who is both more objective and far more raw and disturbing than the hero of popular folklore. The framework of the book is the narration of Billy's feud with Sheriff Pat Garrett. Within that frame Ondaatje includes lyrics, ballads, prose-poems. The result is a book of enormous impact.--Cover

A fitting death for Billy the Kid by Ramon F Adams( Book )

2 editions published in 1960 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

History of "Billy the Kid" by Charles A Siringo( Book )

1 edition published in 1920 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Born in Texas in 1855, Siringo was a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, western writer, and Hollywood advisor until his death in 1928, and crossed the Kid's path once or twice in the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico. His account incorporates some inaccuracies but offers genuine historical nuggets such as cowboy Jim East's eyewitness account of the Kid's capture by Pat Garrett at Stinking Spring. Enormously popular at the turn of the century, Siringo single-handedly kept Billy the Kid's flame alive until the 1920s. Historian Frederick Nolan discusses the place of Siringo's account in Billy the Kid literature."--BOOK JACKET

The authentic life of Billy, the Kid. (Historical introduction by Frederick H. Christian.) by Pat F Garrett( Book )

1 edition published in 1973 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Pat F. Garrett's Authentic Life of Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney). Edited by Maurice Garland Fulton. [With plates, including portraits.] by Pat F Garrett( Book )

1 edition published in 1927 in Undetermined and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

El Chivato the infant rascal : an illustrated history by Bob Boze Bell( Book )

1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Rare rock 'n' roll( Recording )

1 edition published in 1980 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Reward ($5,000.00) : reward for the capture, dead or alive, of one Wm. Wright, better known as "Billy the Kid"( Book )

in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Billy the Kid by Michael Baldwin( Book )

1 edition published in 1970 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

The end by Billy( Book )

1 edition published in 1968 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

TV classics westerns( Visual )

1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Hard-riding adventures of the western daredevils that brings back the romantic simplicity of a great story with a moral

William H. Bonney "Billy the Kid" :( )

1 edition published in 1940 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Contains two letters about Billy the Kid

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