Lawman Pat Garrett was born Patrick Floyd Garrett in Alabama in 1850. He is most famous for the killing of “Billy-the-Kid”. He came out west in 1869 and was a Buffalo Hunter, Cowboy, and even a Hog rancher. He married in 1880 and had eight children one of which was blind and would become the […]
There is much legend surrounding American History of the wild west when it comes to American outlaws and lawmen. The odd thing is that on occasion, the two were interchangeable and a lawman might have been a bandit previously in another state. Here are some profiles of famous outlaws and lawmen of the American wild […]
Billy the Kid was born Henry McCarty in 1859 in New York City. He moved west with his widowed mother, ending up in New Mexico in 1873. When his mother remarried, he took his stepfather’s name of Antrim, then later adopted the alias of William H. Bonney. He was usually known as just Billy the […]