Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as I knew them : reminiscences of John P. Meadows / edited by John P. Wilson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meadows, John P., 1854-1936
Other Authors: Wilson, John P. (John Philip), 1935-
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Billy, > the Kid > Friends and associates.
Garrett, Pat F. > (Pat Floyd), > 1850-1908 > Friends and associates.
Meadows, John P., > 1854-1936.
Frontier and pioneer life > Southwest, New.
Outlaws > Southwest, New > Biography.
Sheriffs > Southwest, New > Biography.
New Southwest > History > 1848-
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xvi, 192 pages : illustrations maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Getting acquainted : Fort Sumner, Pinos Wells, White Oaks
  • Billy and the Lincoln County War
  • Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
  • Seven Rivers and Fort Sumner to Silver City in 1880
  • Southern Arizona and return to New Mexico, 1880
  • I go to work for Pat Coghlan
  • How we guarded one of Pat Garrett's prisoners
  • Recovering stolen horses from the Indians
  • Life in the Sacramentos in 1881
  • Murder of the Nesmith family
  • Arresting a murderer in 1883 in the Agua Chiquita country
  • My association with Pat F. Garrett
  • The Howe murder case
  • The cowboys and their diversions
  • Experiences in the early 1890s
  • Feud murder on the Sacramento River
  • Making hay where no grass grows now
  • Calls 'em down
  • Catching a slippery cow thief.