"So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat
of the saddles."--Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author
From Spur Award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner, his classic dual
biography of Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett, detailing Garrett's
riveting chase of the notorious bandit--now updated with a new afterword
covering new developments in the Billy the Kid story.
Billy the Kid--a.k.a. Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, and William
Bonney--was a horse thief, cattle rustler, charismatic rogue, and
cold-blooded killer. A superb shot, the Kid gunned down four men single
handedly and five others with the help of cronies. Two of his victims
were Lincoln County, NM, deputies, killed during the Kid's brazen
daylight escape from the courthouse jail on April 28, 1881. After
dspensing with his guards and filing through the chain securing his leg
irons, The Kid danced a macabre jig on the jail's porch before riding
away on a stolen horse as terrified townspeople--and many
sympathizers--watched. For new sheriff, Pat Garrett, the chase was on .
. .
To Hell on a Fast Horse recreates the thrilling manhunt for the Wild
West's most iconic outlaw. It is also the first "dual biography" of the
Kid and Garrett, two larger-than-life figures who would not have become
the stuff of legend without the other. Drawing on voluminous primary
sources and a wealth of published scholarship, Mark L. Gardner digs
beneath the myth to take a fresh look at these two men, their
relationship, and what they would come to mean to a public enamored of a
violent national past.
