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bob-mustin's picture
Dec.08.2012
THE SMOKE BEGAN TO CLEAR by Bob Mustin image via www.virtual-history.com Pete’s cough woke me a second before the front door swung open. I raised my pistol and six flashes tore through the dark. I went deaf from the gun blasts, and for a few seconds I couldn’t see. Then the smoke began to clear. A...
michael-barry's picture
Jul.14.2012
On this date in 18881, Sheriff Pat Garrett shoots Henry McCarty, popularly known as Billy the Kid, to death at the Maxwell Ranch in New Mexico.                          ...
michael-barry's picture
Feb.29.2012
On February 29, 1908, legendary lawman Pat Garrett was murdered. He was born on June 5, 1850 in Cusseta, Alabama. He was Sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico and best known for killing Billy the Kid.                 ...