The Gospel According to Billy the Kid
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The Gospel According to Billy the Kid

A Novel

  1. 144 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

The Gospel According to Billy the Kid

A Novel

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
UNM Press
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9780826362353
eBook ISBN
9780826362360

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Prologue August 1914
  8. Chapter 1 The Río Feliz Ranch
  9. Chapter 2 Tunstall
  10. Chapter 3 The Wake
  11. Chapter 4 Morton
  12. Chapter 5 Brewer
  13. Chapter 6 MacNab
  14. Chapter 7 Cullins
  15. Chapter 8 McSween
  16. Chapter 9 Olinger
  17. Chapter 10 Fort Sumner
  18. Chapter 11 Antrim
  19. Chapter 12 Stinking Springs
  20. Chapter 13 Mangel
  21. Chapter 14 The Monastery
  22. Chapter 15 Brother Charles
  23. Chapter 16 Brother Bede
  24. Chapter 17 The Río Chama
  25. Chapter 18 The Jemez Mountains
  26. Chapter 19 Cañon de los Frijoles
  27. Chapter 20 The Monks
  28. Chapter 21 Comanches
  29. Chapter 22 Brother Jude
  30. Chapter 23 Ojo Caliente
  31. Chapter 24 Amigos Perdidos
  32. Chapter 25 Billy the Kid
  33. Chapter 26 Cuba Libre
  34. Chapter 27 August 1914