Demille to Sam Peckinpah, and books, not to mention Aaron Copland's opera, casting the Kid as both villainous outlaw and unsung hero fighting for justice, the story of Billy the Kid has woven its way into the American imagination. The subject of hundreds of songs, films from Cecil B. Now part of the American mythology, Garrett's friendship with the Kid, their mutual respect, and his subsequent hunt, capture, escape and death have become the stuff of legend. SHERIFF PAT GARRETT'S COLT SINGLE ACTION WHICH HE USED TO KILL BILLY THE KID, JULY 14, 1881, AT PETE MAXWELL'S RANCH.Īn iconic piece of history from one of the most important events of the early west, Sheriff Pat Garrett's yearlong pursuit of the notorious Billy the Kid. Literature: Garavaglia & Worman, Firearms of the American West, 1866-1894, Albuquerque, NM, 1985, p 293 Metz, Leon Claire, Pat Garrett: The Story of a Western Lawman, Norman, OK, 1973, p 102 Wilson, R.L., The Peacemakers, New York, 1992.
Garrett, Apcontemporary newspaper documentation, including pictures of her with the gun) sold to Calvin Moerbe of Round Rock, Texas, 1976 sold to Jim and Theresa Earle, July 14, 1983. Anderson) taken by Pat Garrett when he arrested Wilson and the rest of the Billy the Kid gang at Stinking Springs used by Garrett to kill Billy the Kid at Pete Maxwell's, J(notarized copy of a 1906 letter signed from Garrett) loaned to Tom Powers for exhibition at his Coney Island Saloon (appears in Tom Powers inventory and probate) recovered by Garrett's widow, Apolinaria (Pauline) Garrett, from Powers estate, 1933 (signed and notarized letter from Jarvis P. Provenance: Billy Wilson (alias of David L.
Condition: Very good with traces of blue on barrel and cylinder flutes and other protected areas. 44-40 caliber 7 1/2 inch barrel, one line Hartford address crescent ejector rod head.
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