NMLP P-035417 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-09

The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid

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

Because the 1882 Santa Fe printing sold poorly and few copies survive, most copies encountered today are 20th-century reprints or facsimiles, which reproduce the pagination error but are printed on modern paper in modern bindings rather than the original wrappers.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-035417 for "The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid" by Pat F. Garrett (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035417, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).