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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young William Bonney is talked into committing his first train robbery, unaware that his cousin and best friend, Willie Monroe, is now sheriff of the nearest town, and that his fellow robbers are already wanted in four states.
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Route 66 comes this long-awaited biography of one of America's most legendary folk heroes.Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and yet remains an enigma to this day. With the Gilded Age in full swing and the Industrial Revolution reshaping the American landscape,...
Author
Publisher
Bison Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Whatever his name or alias at the moment-Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim, Billy Bonney-people always called him the Kid. Not until his final month did anyone call him Billy the Kid. Newspapers pictured him as a king of outlaws; and his highly publicized capture, trial, escape, and end fixed his image in the public mind for all time. He was only twenty-one years old when a bullet from Sheriff Pat Garetts six-shooter killed him on July 14, 1881....
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The legendary exploits of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly live on in the public imaginations of their respective countries, the United States and Australia. But the outlaws' reputations are so mythologized, the truth of their lives has become obscure. In Wanted, Robert M. Utley reveals the true stories and parallel courses of the two notorious contemporaries who lived by the gun, were executed while still in their twenties, and remain compelling figures...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
From the legendary Dolly Parton comes a story about her god-dog and Instagram personality, Billy the Kid, who is hoping to make it big as a country music star in Nashville, Tennessee.
French bulldog Billy the Kid was born with an ear for music. And not just any music. He loves barking to the beat of country music! So Billy sets out to Nashville to sing his heart out.
But when he meets some big bullies at the Battle of the Bow-wows,...
French bulldog Billy the Kid was born with an ear for music. And not just any music. He loves barking to the beat of country music! So Billy sets out to Nashville to sing his heart out.
But when he meets some big bullies at the Battle of the Bow-wows,...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nicholas Flamel appeared in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter—but did you know he really lived? And he might still be alive today! Discover the truth in Michael Scott’s New York Times bestselling series the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel with Billy the Kid and the Vampyres of Vegas, an ebook original.
Years before Sophie and Josh Newman met Nicholas Flamel, two legendary warriors fought...
Years before Sophie and Josh Newman met Nicholas Flamel, two legendary warriors fought...
9) To hell on a fast horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the epic chase to justice in the Old West
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
No outlaw typifies America's mythic Wild West more than Billy the Kid. To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner is the riveting true tale of Sheriff Pat Garrett's thrilling, break-neck chase in pursuit of the notorious bandit. This is spellbinding historical adventure at its very best, recalling James Swanson's New York Times bestseller Manhunt-about the search for Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth-as it fills in with fascinating detail the...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"How did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life--only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone Ranger based on a real lawman--and was he an African American? What amazing detective work led to the capture of Black Bart, the 'gentleman bandit' and one of the West's most famous stagecoach robbers? Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid really die in a hail of bullets in South America? Generations of Americans have grown up on TV shows, movies,...
11) The Kid
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"A new novel from Ron Hansen, the award-winning author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, about an iconic American criminal of the old West: legendary outlaw, Billy the Kid. Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who, growing up in New York, Kansas, and later New Mexico, demonstrated a precocious dexterity at firing six-shooters with either hand--a skill that both got him into...
12) The gunfighters
Author
Language
English
Description
Joaquin Murrietta, Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, Bill Longley, Ben Gunfighter such as: Thompson, King Fisher, Jim courtright, John Wesley Hardin, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Clay Allison, Bat Masterson, Luke Short, Old Man Clanton, John Ringo, Curly Bill Brocius, Dave Mather, Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane
13) Outlaws
Author
Publisher
Thameside Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book profiles the lives of William Tell, Robin Hood, Blackbeard, Mary Read, Dick Turpin, Belle Starr, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, and other outlaws.
Author
Publisher
Publications International, Ltd
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy, Killin' Jim Miller, Belle Starr, Calamity Jane, Annie Oakley, Gen. Sam Houston, Chief Crazy Horse, Jim Bridger, Jedediah Smith, James P. Beckwourth, Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Bass Reeves, Bill Tighman, Pat Garrett, Tom Horn, Buffalo Bill Cody, Roy Bean, Bat Masterson, Judge Isaac Parker, Nat Love, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Charley Parkhurst, Nellie Cashman, Adah Isaacs Menken, Sitting Bull,...
15) The warlock
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Josh has chosen to side neither with his twin sister Sophie nor with the Alchemyst, Nicholas Flamel, but rather to fight alongside Dr. John Dee and the mysterious Virginia Dare, while the immortal Machiavelli and Billy the Kid follow the Elders' plans to set loose the monsters of Alcatraz on San Francisco and trigger the end of the humani race.
Publisher
Great Mountain West Supply
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
John Beidler. William Preston Longley. Joaquin Murietta. Cattle Kate. Cole Younger. John Wesley Hardin. Jesse James. Black Jack Ketchum. Billy the Kid. Pat Garrett. Black Bart. Tiburcio Vasquez. Wyatt Earp. Bob Dalton. Christian Madsen. Bill Doolin. Bill Tilghman. Heck Thomas.
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