NMLP P-035416 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid

Pat F. Garrett · New Mexican Printing and Publishing Company (Santa Fe) · 1882

Garrett, the Lincoln County sheriff who killed Billy the Kid, credited ghostwriter Marshall Ashmun "Ash" Upson with much of the earlier, more embellished chapters, while the later chapters describing the manhunt read in a plainer, first-person style attributed to Garrett himself

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035416 for "The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid" by Pat F. Garrett (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035416, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).