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Billy the Kid : A Short and Violent Life by Robert Marshall Utley (1989,...
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed
- No
- Book Series
- Historical
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780803245532
- Book Title
- Billy the Kid : a Short and Violent Life
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Year
- 1989
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- General, Criminals & Outlaws
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Item Weight
- 21.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Robert M. Utley does what countless books, movies, television shows, musical compositions, and paintings have failed to do: he successfully strips off the veneer of legendry to expose the reality of Billy the Kid. Using previously untapped sources, he presents an engrossing story--the most complete and accurate ever--of a youthful hoodlum and sometime killer who found his calling in New Mexico's bloody power struggle known as the Lincoln County War. In unmasking the legend Utley also tells us much about our heritage of frontier vigilantism and violence.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
080324553x
ISBN-13
9780803245532
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038837958
Product Key Features
Book Title
Billy the Kid : a Short and Violent Life
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Criminals & Outlaws
Publication Year
1989
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Item Weight
21.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F786.B54u87 1989
Reviews
"It's certain to remain the authoritative biography that at last makes the Kid's life whole and understandable."-- San Francisco Chronicle, "A gripping, compelling yarn you can't afford to miss. This is the western book of the year--any year."-- Books of the Southwest, "Utley deftly slices away the veneer of legend to reveal the flesh-and-blood young man a tragic figure who was neither a mythical hero nor a ruthless killer, but a rather ordinary outlaw whose career did not live up to his reputation."-Michael Wallis, True West, "Historian Robert M. Utley has provided us with the best portrait to date of the real Kid, from his shrouded origins in New York City to the escalating criminal career that ended only when lawman Pat Garrett surprised him with a bullet. . . . Utley's [book] is valuable both for its careful separation of fact from fiction . . . and for its thoughtful treatment of the Kid as an American frontier symbol."-- Washington Post, "Noteworthy for its massive research, exciting reconstruction of several gun battles, and Utley's refusal to be suckered into the Kid-as-Hero myth."-- Kirkus Reviews, "Utley deftly slices away the veneer of legend to reveal the flesh-and-blood young man a tragic figure who was neither a mythical hero nor a ruthless killer, but a rather ordinary outlaw whose career did not live up to his reputation."--Michael Wallis, True West, "An excellent book. Cool scholarship reveals a factual Billy much scarier than the one of the legend."--Ian Frazier, author of The Great Plains
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
89-030022
Dewey Decimal
364.1/552/0924 B
Dewey Edition
92
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