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Oct 8, 2018 · A close look at the aftermath of Pat Garrett’s crowning moment in July 1881 calls into question that the famous outlaw might not have died as legend has it.
Pat Garrett and the Kid no doubt knew each other, but they were not close friends. In Garrett's biography, The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, when Tom O’Folliard (a friend of the Kid's) was mortally wounded and in pain, the dying outlaw pleaded with Garrett that if he was a friend he would put him out of his misery. Garrett replied, “I do ...
Feb 2, 2023 · According to Robert M. Utley's definitive Billy the Kid, by the time his life ended on July 14, 1881, at age 21, McCarty/Antrim/Bonney had killed four men for certain, one perhaps, and participated in killing perhaps five more.
- “I’ll Put You Out Right Now”
- Incapable of Murder
- Court Case Discovery
- What Happened to Brazel?
- Dinner with A Brazell
When Brazel admitted to killing Garrett on a lonely stretch of road just east of Las Cruces, New Mexico Territory, in 1908, he claimed he shot in self-defense during a property dispute. Eyewitness Carl Adamson backed up Brazel’s version of events. Adamson told officials Brazel waited until Garrett threatened him with: “You, I’ll put you out right n...
From the day he achieved fame for killing the Kid until his own death 26 years later, Garrett made numerous enemies. He drank and gambled excessively, was drawn into arguments easily and borrowed money from powerful people he could not always repay. Despite his negative qualities, Garrett remained a feared lawman whom politicians often called on to...
While researching the Power shoot-out for the documentary film Power’s Warand for my book on Arizona’s deadliest gunfight, I stumbled upon a Cochise County legal case in the Arizona State Archives involving the Power family and Brazel. Brazel was not listed by name as a plaintiff in the case of “C.S. and M.J. Power v. J.W. Gould et al” filed on Aug...
Brazel’s fate is less certain. At the time of the court proceedings with the Power family, he married Olive Boyd in September 1910, a union which produced a baby boy. When Olive died a few months after giving birth, Brazel left his son to be raised by his in-laws in El Paso, Texas, moved to Ash Fork, Arizona, and then vanished, raising even more qu...
A woman who claims relation to the alleged killer of Pat Garrett read one of my True West Moments in The Arizona Republic.She offered to tell me what happened to Wayne. I met with 82-year-old Emalee Brazell Price and two of her friends at a Texas Roadhouse restaurant on February 27, 2017. Emalee told me Wayne had died in 1936 of typhoid. He was wor...
Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (June 5, 1850 – February 29, 1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent known for killing Billy the Kid. He was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, as well as Doña Ana County, New Mexico.
May 14, 2020 · How Did Billy the Kid Die? Even though a widely-accepted account says the outlaw was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico, murky details have led to other theories. By: Patrick J. Kiger
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Nov 13, 2009 · Sheriff Pat Garrett shoots Henry McCarty, popularly known as Billy the Kid, to death at the Maxwell Ranch in New Mexico. Garrett, who had been tracking the Kid for three months after the...
