Dimensions
165 x 244 x 33mm
Award-winning historian Michael Willis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologised 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 re-shaping the American landscape, "the Kid", who was gunned down by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico Territory at the age of twenty-one, became a new breed of celebrity outlaw. This new biography, filled with dozens of rare images and period photographs, separates myth from reality and presents and an unforgettable portrait of the brief and violent life.
