Volume 54, Number 16 · October 25, 2007
Our Favorite Bandit
By Larry McMurtry
Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride
by Michael Wallis
Norton, 328 pp., $25.95
Billy the Kid was ambidextrous—according to some. His favorite song—according to some—was 'Silver Threads Among the Gold,' though once he discovered dancing, for which he had a flair, 'Silver Threads' may have been bumped for 'Turkey in the Straw.' According to some, his last (and perhaps only true) girlfriend, Paulita Maxwell, was pregnant by him on that fateful night—July 14, 1881—when Sheriff Pat Garrett, of Lincoln County, New Mexico, snuck up on her father's ranch house and shot Billy dead, firing into darkness at the sound of Billy's voice.
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