By Mark Lee Gardner
ISBN-10: 006136827X
ISBN-13: 9780061368271
ISBN-10: 0061969532
ISBN-13: 9780061969539
“So richly particular, you could virtually scent the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. ”
—Hampton facets, New York instances bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers
No outlaw typifies America’s mythic Wild West greater than Billy the child. To Hell on a quick Horse by Mark Lee Gardner is the riveting precise story of Sheriff Pat Garrett’s exciting, break-neck chase in pursuit of the infamous bandit. David Dary calls To Hell on a quick Horse, “A masterpiece,” and Robert M. Utley calls it, “Superb narrative history.” This is spellbinding old experience at its best possible, recalling James Swanson’s New York Times bestseller Manhunt—about the hunt for Lincoln’s murderer, John Wilkes Booth—as it fills in with attention-grabbing aspect the tale director Sam Peckinpah dropped at the monitor in his vintage movie Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
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He liked hopeless cases and was good at swaying “Mexican juries,” in part because of his Spanish language skills but also because he had married the daughter in a prominent Hispanic family. Additionally, Fountain was well familiar with the events and personalities of the Lincoln County War. In a strange connection to the case, Fountain had been blamed for inciting Brady’s killers with an editorial in the Mesilla Valley Independent that condoned the use of “mob law” in Lincoln County—saying it was better than no law at all.
PAT F. , when a mule-drawn wagon accompanied by five armed horsemen rapidly approached the outskirts of Las Vegas in the Territory of New Mexico. The leader of the men on horseback rode stoop shouldered, a natural consequence of his six-foot-four-inch frame. He was as thin as a rail, and even as bundled up as he was, he seemed to be all arms and legs. He had a dark mustache, light gray eyes, and a swarthy face that showed the years he had spent on the open range of Texas and New Mexico. Seated in the wagon were four dirty, trail-worn men in handcuffs and shackles.
2 Trails West His voice was as soft as a woman’s, and he rarely used it to talk of himself. —PAT DONAN THE CAPTURE OF THE in gold. Yet for all the public attention, hardly anyone really knew the lawman, and Garrett was not much of a talker, at least when asked to talk about himself. He seemed to have blown in off the plains and was just suddenly there, the right man at the right place. And that was pretty much how it happened. Garrett was born in another place and time, in Chambers County, Alabama, on June 5, 1850.