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The Endless Ride
W. W. Norton
March 2007
On Sale: March 19, 2007
Featuring: Billy the Kid
288 pages
ISBN: 0393060683
EAN: 9780393060683
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
From the best-selling author of Route 66 comes this
long-awaited biography of one of America's most legendary
folk heroes. Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several
years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid
(1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a
legend in his own time and yet remains an enigma to this
day. With the Gilded Age in full swing and the Industrial
Revolution reshaping the American landscape, "the Kid," who
was gunned down by Sheriff Pat Garrett in the New Mexico
Territory at the age of twenty-one, became a new breed of
celebrity outlaw. He arose amid the mystery and myth of the
swiftly vanishing frontier and, sensationalized beyond
recognition by the tabloids and dime-store romances of the
day, emerged as one of the most enduring icons of the
American West—not to mention one of Hollywood's most
misrepresented characters. This new biography, filled with
dozens of rare images and period photographs, separates myth
from reality and presents an unforgettable portrait of this
brief and violent life. 60 illustrations.
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