For the Sullivan/Sederwall investigation, see the New York Times, June 5, 2003; Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug. 2, 2004; Tucson Weekly, Apr. 13, 2006; Houston Chronicle, Sept. 5, 2007; Ruidoso News, Aug. 13, 2008; Albuquerque Journal, Aug. 18, 2007, and Aug. 28, 2008; and Jana Bommersbach, “Digging Up Billy,” True West 50 (Aug./Sept. 2003): 42–45. The investigation also figures in a 2004 History Channel documentary, Investigating History: Billy the Kid, and a 2007 French documentary, Requiem for Billy the Kid, directed by Anne Feinsilber.
Florencio Chavez is as quoted in Eugene Cunningham, “Fought with Billy the Kid,” Frontier Times 9 (Mar. 1932): 247.
For the sad condition of Garrett’s grave and the removal of his remains to the Masonic cemetery, see the Las Cruces Sun-News, Feb. 1, 1948; Big Spring Daily Herald, Sept. 12, 1957; and Las Cruces Sun-News, Oct. 23, 1957.
Sallie Chisum is as quoted in Burns, Saga of Billy the Kid, 18–19.
Resources
ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records, Phoenix
Inquest of H. L. Murphy, 1910
A. P. Rhode Petition for Writ, 1910
Yavapai County Board of Supervisors, RC 113
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Leon C. Metz Papers, MS 157
C. L. Sonnichsen Papers, MS 141
Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
E. A. Brininstool Collection
Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Ealy Family Papers, MSS 443 BC
John William Poe Papers, MSS 95 SC
Marshall Bond Papers, MSS 118 SC
Marshall Bond Photograph Collection, PICT 000-118
Cobb Memorial Archives, Valley, Alabama
Patrick Floyd Jarvis Probate File
Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado
Billy the Kid Clippings File
Pat Garrett Clippings File
Charles Jesse Jones Letter, Apr. 1, 1917, MSS-M414
Donnelly Library, Special Collections, New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas
“The Original Las Vegas, 1835–1935,” by Lynn I. Perrigo, 2 vols. (typescript), 1975
The Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe
William H. Bonney Collection, AC 017-P
Lincoln County Collection, AC 134
Charles Siringo Papers, AC 212
Marta Weigle Collection, AC 361
Haley Memorial Library and History Center, Midland, Texas
J. Evetts Haley interview with James East, Sept. 27, 1927, J. Evetts Haley Collection
New Mexico Biographical Notes, Robert N. Mullin Collection
L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Eve Ball Papers, MSS 3096
Lincoln County Clerk’s Office, Carrizozo, New Mexico
Lincoln County Records
James W. Bell Probate File
James Carlyle Probate File
Robert Olinger Probate File
Lincoln Heritage Trust, Lincoln, New Mexico
Coroner’s Jury Verdict, Deaths of Robert Olinger and J. W. Bell
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Reports of Special Operative Azariah F. Wild, Daily Reports of U.S. Secret Service Agents, 1875–1936, Records of the United States Secret Service, RG 87, Microfilm T915, roll 308
New Mexico State Records Center and Archives, Santa Fe
Billy the Kid History File
Buckner Collection of Elizabeth Garrett Materials, 1893–1992, Coll. #1992-025
Donald Cline Collection
Lincoln County War History File #20
Marriage Records, 1857–1946, La Yglesia de San Jose (St. Joseph), Anton Chico, New Mexico, Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Microfilm Roll 61-A
Frank W. Parker Papers
Territorial Archives of New Mexico (microfilm)
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Territory of New Mexico vs. Wayne Brazel, Case #4112, Doña Ana County District Court Records, Box 13320
Pinal County Historical Museum, Florence, Arizona
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Albert Bacon Fall Collection, Ms 8
Patrick F. Garrett Family Papers, Ms 282
Herman B. Weisner Papers, Ms 249
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Oliver E. Aultman Collection
Dawson Scrapbooks
Fred M. Mazzulla Collection, #1881
University of Arizona Library Special Collections, Tucson
Maurice G. Fulton Collection
Ealy Papers
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Robert G. McCubbin, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Marc Simmons, Cerrillos, New Mexico
Robert M. Utley, Georgetown, Texas
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Books and Articles
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———. Sheriff Harvey Whitehill: Silver City Stalwart. Silver City, N.Mex.: High-Lonesome Books, 2005.
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———. “Lawman in Disgrace: Sheriff Charles C. Perry of Chaves County, New Mexico.” New Mexico Historical Review 61 (Apr. 1986): 125–136.
———. The United States Marshals of New Mexico and Arizona Territories, 1846–1912. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978.
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Barron, R. M., ed. Court of Inquiry, Lieutenant Colonel N. A. M. Dudley, Fort Stanton, New Mexico, May-June-July 1879. Edina, Minn.: Beaver’s Pond Press, Inc., 2003.
Beckett, Patrick H., ed. Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1881: As Seen by Her Newspapers. Las Cruces: COAS Publishing and Research, 2003.
Bell, Bob Boze. The Illustrated Life and Times of Billy the Kid. Revised and expanded second edition. Phoenix, Ariz.: Tri Star–Boze Publications, 1996.
Bidal, Lillian H. Pisacah: A Place of Plenty. El Paso, Tex.: Robert E. and Evelyn McKee Foundation, 1995.
Billington, Monroe Lee. New Mexico’s Buffalo Soldiers, 1866–1900. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1991.
Billy the Kid: Las Vegas Newspaper Accounts of His Career. Waco, Tex.: W. M. Morrison Books,1958.
Blazer, Almer. “The Fight at Blazer’s Mill, in New Mexico.” Frontier Times 16 (August 1939): 461–466.
Blazer, Paul A. “The Fight at Blazer’s Mill: A Chapter in the Lincoln County War.” Arizona and the West 6 (Autumn 1964): 203–210.
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Bommersbach, Jana. “Digging Up Billy.” True West 50 (Aug./Sept. 2003): 42–45.
Braddock, James E. “Relics from Pat Garrett’s Ranch.” Relics 2 (Spring 1969): 16–17.
Branch, Louis Leon. “Los Bilitos”: The Story of “Billy the Kid” and His Gang. New York: Carlton Press, Inc., 1980.
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Burns, Walter Noble. The Saga of Billy the Kid. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926.
Callon, Milton W. Las Vegas, New Mexico: The Town That Wouldn’t Gamble. Las Vegas, N.Mex.: Las Vegas Publishing Co., 1962.
Campa, Arthur L. Hispanic Culture in the Southwest. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.
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Casey, Robert J. The Texas Border and Some Borderliners. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1950.
Chamberlain, Kathleen P. “In the Shadow of Billy the Kid: Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War.” Montana the Magazine of Western History 55 (Winter 2005): 36–53.
Cline, Don. Alias Billy the Kid: The Man Behind the Legend. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 1986.
———. Antrim & Billy. College Station, Tex.: Creative Publishing Company, 1990.
———. “Pat Garrett’s Tragic Lawsuit.” Old West 25 (Summer 1989): 18–23.
———. “Tom Pickett: Friend of Billy the Kid.” True West 44 ( July 1997): 40–49.
Cobos, Rubén. A Dictionary of New Mexico & Southern Colorado Spanish. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2003.
Coe, George W. Frontier Fighter: The Autobiography of George W. Coe Who Fought and Rode with Billy the Kid. Edited by Doyce B. Nunis Jr. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1984.
Collinson, Frank. Life in the Saddle. Edited by Mary Whatley Clarke. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963.
Copland, Aaron, and Vivian Perlis. Copland, 1900 through 1942. New York: St. Martin’s, 1984.
Cotten, Lee. “True Tales of Billy the Kid: The Kid in Arizona, 1875–1877.” The Kid (Mar. 1990): 7–15; ( July 1990): 10–19.
Cramer, T. Dudley. The Pecos Ranchers in the Lincoln County War. Oakland, Calif.: The Branding Iron Press, 1996.
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———. “The Search for Billy the Kid’s Roots.” Real West 21 (Nov. 1978): 12–19, 39.
———. “The Search for Billy the Kid’s Roots—Is Over!” Real West 23 (Jan. 1980): 26–28, 59–60.
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———. “From Prince to Knave to an Early Grave: The Story of Charlie Bowdre.” National Association for Outlaw and Lawman History Quarterly 19 ( July–Sept. 1995): 2–8.
———. Goodbye Billy the Kid. College Station, Tex.: Creative Publishing Company, 1995.
———. “Pat Garrett and the Las Cruces Bank Robbery.” True West 45 (Feb. 1998): 8–13.
The Estate of Richard C. Marohn, M.D. (auction catalog). San Francisco: Butterfield & Butterfield, 1996.
Fable, Edmund. Billy the Kid, the New Mexican Outlaw; or the Bold Bandit of the West. Denver, Colo.: The Denver Publishing Co., 1881.
Fleming, Elvis E. Captain Joseph C. Lea: From Confederate Guerrilla to New Mexico Patriarch. Las Cruces: Yucca Tree Press, 2002.
———. J. B. “Billy” Mathews: Biography of a Lincoln County Deputy. Las Cruces: Yucca Tree Press, 1999.
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———. “Billy the Kid in Life and Books.” The New Mexico Folklore Record 4 (1949–1950): 1–6.
———. Maurice Garland Fulton’s History of the Lincoln County War. Edited by Robert N. Mullin. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1968.
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———. The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid. Introduction by Jarvis P. Garrett. Albuquerque: Horn & Wallace, 1964.
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Hough, Emerson. “The American Six-Shooter: What the Real Six-Shooter Is—What It Will Do and Will Not Do.” The Outing Magazine ( Jan. 1909): 502–510.
———. “Billy the Kid: The True Story of a Western ‘Bad Man.’” Everybody’s Magazine 5 (Sept. 1901): 303–310.
———. The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado. New York: The Outing Publishing Company, 1907.
Hoyt, Henry F. A Frontier Doctor. Edited by Doyce B. Nunis Jr. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1979.
Hunt, Frazier. The Tragic Days of Billy the Kid. New York: Hastings House, 1956.
Hunter, J. Marvin. The Trail Drivers of Texas. 1925. Reprint, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.
Hutchinson, W. H. A Bar Cross Man: The Life and Personal Writings of Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956.
———. Another Verdict for Oliver Lee. Clarendon, Tex.: Clarendon Press, 1965.
———, ed. The Rhodes Reader: Stories of Virgins, Villains, and Varmints. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957.
Hutton, Paul Andrew. “Silver Screen Desperado: Billy the Kid in the Movies.” New Mexico Historical Review 82 (Spring 2007): 149–196.
Hyde, Albert E. “The Old Regime in the Southwest, The Reign of the Revolver in New Mexico.” The Century Magazine 63 (Mar. 1902): 690–701.
Irwin, Helen. “When Billy the Kid Was Brought to Trial.” Frontier Times 6 (Mar. 1929): 214–215.
Jacobsen, Joel
. Such Men as Billy the Kid: The Lincoln County War Reconsidered. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
Jameson, W. C. “The Controversial Inquests and Burial of Billy the Kid.” Wild West 19 (Feb. 2007): 42–49.
Kajencki, Francis Casimir. Poles in the 19th Century Southwest. El Paso, Tex.: Southwest Polonia Press, 1990.
Kaye, E. Donald. Nathan Augustus Monroe Dudley, 1825–1910: Rogue, Hero, or Both? Parker, Colo.: Outskirts Press, 2007.
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———. Violence in Lincoln County, 1869–1881. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1957.
King, Frank M. Mavericks: The Salty Comments of an Old-Time Cowpuncher. Pasadena, Calif.: Trail’s End Publishing Co., 1947.
———. Wranglin’ the Past: The Reminiscences of Frank M. King. Pasadena, Calif.: Trail’s End Publishing Co., 1946.
Klasner, Lily. My Girlhood Among Outlaws. Edited by Eve Ball. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1972.
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Lake, Stuart N. Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1931.
Lavash, Donald R. Sheriff William Brady: Tragic Hero of the Lincoln County War. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 1986.
———. Wilson & The Kid. College Station, Tex.: Creative Publishing Company, 1990.
LeNoir, Phil. Rhymes of the Wild & Wooly. Santa Fe: privately printed, 1920.
Lockwood, Frank C. Pioneer Portraits, Selected Vignettes. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1968.
McCright, Grady E., and James H. Powell. Jessie Evans: Lincoln County Badman. College Station, Tex.: Creative Publishing Company, 1983.
———. Disorder in Lincoln County: Frank Warner Angel’s Reports. Las Cruces: Rio Grande Historical Collections, 1981.
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