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The gospel according to Billy the Kid : a novel / Dennis McCarthy.
"Like many good stories of the old West, this one begins in a saloon. In 1914 in El Paso, Texas, two strangers strike up a conversation at the bar--Bill Roberts, a real-life figure who died in Hico, Texas, in 1950, and a former US Army scout whose brother knew Roberts by another name: Billy the Kid. So begins The Gospel According to Billy the Kid, a tale of the old New Mexico territory, corrupt lawmen, honest ranchers, murder, betrayal, and the explosive events of the Lincoln County War that sent young Billy off seeking justice--and headed toward a bloody rendezvous with a sheriff hired to track him down. In the saloon Roberts has us imagine another story, told thirty-three years later over shots of whiskey, about a young outlaw given a second chance to find himself, to find peace, and to finally grow up and out from under the shadow of his own infamy." -- back cover
Record details
- ISBN: 9780826362353
- ISBN: 0826362354
- Physical Description: viii, 165 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Albuquerque, NM : University of New Mexico Press, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Subject: | Billy, the Kid > Fiction. Outlaws > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Novels. Western fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jefferson County Library-Arnold | F WESTERN MCCARTHY Dennis (Text) | 30061100082672 | Westerns | Available | - |
| Jefferson County Library-Northwest | F WESTERN MCCARTHY Dennis (Text) | 30051100082681 | Westerns | Available | - |
| Jefferson County Library-Windsor | F WESTERN MCCARTHY Dennis (Text) | 30065100082699 | Westerns | Available | - |
