Dennis Mccarthy

The Gospel According to Billy the Kid (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826362360
• Artikelnr.: 60591764

Autorenporträt

Dennis McCarthy has been a park ranger, ecologist, speechwriter, editor in chief, professor, and attorney. At work on his second novel, he and his wife and beagle live in Santa Fe, New Mexico.