The Real Billy the Kid

Miguel Antonio Otero Jr. (1859-1944) the scion of a powerful Nuevomexicano family served two terms as Governor of New Mexico Territory. But many years before that he met a less fortunate young man almost exactly his own age: a shackled prisoner named William H. Bonney Jr. but better known as Billy the Kid. I liked The Kid very much Otero writes of his encounter adding: Nothing would have pleased me more than to have witnessed his escape.First published in a limited edition in 1936 The Real Billy the Kid is a landmark biography of the infamous Western outlaw: his brief childhood gunfights encounters with the Apaches entanglement in the murderous feud known as the Lincoln County War and finally his friendship with the man who ultimately killed him Sheriff Pat Garrett.