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    Life of Pat F. Garrett and the Taming of the Border Outlaw: A History of the “Gun Men” And Outlaws, and a Life-Story of the Greatest Sheriff of the Old Southwest
    Life of Pat F. Garrett and the Taming of the Border Outlaw: A History of the “Gun Men” And Outlaws, and a Life-Story of the Greatest Sheriff of the Old Southwest
    Life of Pat F. Garrett and the Taming of the Border Outlaw: A History of the “Gun Men” And Outlaws, and a Life-Story of the Greatest Sheriff of the Old Southwest
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    Life of Pat F. Garrett and the Taming of the Border Outlaw: A History of the “Gun Men” And Outlaws, and a Life-Story of the Greatest Sheriff of the Old Southwest

    By John Milton Scanland

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    Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (1850-1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent who became renowned for killing Billy the Kid. He was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico as well as Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

    Life of Pat F. Garrett and the Taming of the Boarder Outlaw tells the story of the sheriff who pursued and killed Billy the Kid. Authored by John Milton Scanland, a newspaperman who knew both Pat F. Garrett and New Mexico well, the book was written shortly after Pat F. Garrett’s own slaying in 1908.

    A thrilling read, no collection of Western Outlaw material is complete without it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBorodino Books
    Release dateDec 2, 2018
    ISBN9781789127812
    Life of Pat F. Garrett and the Taming of the Border Outlaw: A History of the “Gun Men” And Outlaws, and a Life-Story of the Greatest Sheriff of the Old Southwest
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    John Milton Scanland

    John Milton Scanland was born in Mississippi around 1843. Orphaned at a young age, he began his career at the Caddo Gazette in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he and his, brother William Henry Scanland, who later rose to prominence as editor of the Bossier Banner, worked as apprentices. After serving in the Confederate army, Scanland edited the Bienville Messenger in Sparta, a small town near Shreveport, and by 1867 he was editor of the Natchitoches Spectator. Scanland eventually found his way to California, where in the 1880s he edited the Ojai Valley View and the Santa Paula Graphic. Later he wrote articles, mostly on western topics, for various newspapers, including the L.A. Times, which hailed him as “a pioneer California journalist” when he died in 1935. In 1908, in El Paso, Texas, Scanland published a biography of another western lawman only slightly less famous than Wyatt Earp—Pat Garrett, the New Mexican sheriff who killed Billy the Kid. Garrett, incidentally, had grown up on a plantation not far from Shreveport.

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      Life of Pat F. Garrett and the Taming of the Border Outlaw - John Milton Scanland

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      Text originally published in 1908 under the same title.

      © Borodino Books 2018, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

      Publisher’s Note

      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      LIFE OF PAT F. GARRETT

      AND THE TAMING OF THE BORDER OUTLAW.

      A HISTORY OF THE GUN MEN AND OUTLAWS, AND A LIFE-STORY OF THE GREATEST SHERIFF OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST.

      BY

      JOHN MILTON SCANLAND

      Pat F. Garrett

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

      CHAPTER I 5

      CHAPTER II — ORIGIN OF THE TROUBLE. 8

      CHAPTER III. — THE TRAGEDY ON THE LONELY ROAD. 10

      CHAPTER IV. — GARRETT HAD A PRESENTIMENT OF HIS FATE. 11

      CHAPTER V. — AT THE BAR OF JUSTICE. 13

      CHAPTER VI. — RUMORS OF THREATS. 14

      CHAPTER VII. — THE LIFE OF GARRETT. 15

      CHAPTER VIII. — THE REIGN OF THE GUN MEN. 16

      CHAPTER IX. — BLOODY DONA ANA COUNTY. 18

      CHAPTER X. — HISTORY OF BLOODY DEEDS. 19

      CHAPTER XI. — THE MAN OF THE HOUR—PAT GARRETT. 21

      CHAPTER XII. — THE ETHICS OF THE DROP. 22

      CHAPTER XIII. — GARRETT’S FIGHT WITH AN OUTLAW. 23

      CHAPTER XIV — BONES OF HIS VICTIM AS EVIDENCE. 24

      CHAPTER XV. — THE BLOODY CATTLE WAR. 25

      CHAPTER XVI — ON THE TRACK OF THE KID. 26

      CHAPTER XVII. — TWO COWARDLY BAD MEN. 27

      CHAPTER XVIII — CAPTURE OF THE KID AND HIS GANG. 29

      CHAPTER XIX. — A BLUSTERING MOB AT LAS VEGAS. 31

      CHAPTER XX  THE KID IS SENTENCED TO BE HANGED. 32

      CHAPTER XXI — WANDERINGS OF THE OUTLAW. 33

      CHAPTER XXII. — WILLIAM H. BONNEY, ALIAS BILLY THE KID. 34

      CHAPTER XXIII. — BILLY MAKES HIS FIRST RAID. 36

      CHAPTER XXIV. — A BUNCO HORSE RACE. 37

      CHAPTER XXV — BILLY MAKES ANOTHER KILLING. 38

      CHAPTER XXVI — BAD LUCK, BUT BROKE A MONTE GAME. 39

      CHAPTER XXVI. — NOT OF THE YELLOW KID TYPE. 40

      CHAPTER XXVII. — THE LAST SCENE OF ALL. 41

      CHAPTER XXVIII. — PEACE AND PROSPERITY NOW REIGN IN LINCOLN. 42

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 47

      CHAPTER I

      Pat F. Garrett, the slayer of Billy, the Kid, was killed by Wayne Brazel, near Las Cruces, New Mexico, on the morning of February 29, 1908. The weapon used was a six-shooter and the first shot entered the back of the head and came out over the left eye; the second ball entered the lower breast and ranged up about nine inches into the shoulder blade. Garrett died instantly, and without speaking.

      The tragedy occurred five miles east of the village. Garrett was in his buggy, with Carl Adamson, and Brazel was on horseback, having overtaken Garrett, who was on his way to Las Cruces. Brazel rode on to town and surrendered to Sheriff Lucero, stating that he had killed Garrett in self-defense. Brazel was placed in jail, and a coroner’s jury was impanelled, and went to the scene of the killing. The jury gave a formal verdict merely stating that the deceased came to his death at the hands of Wayne Brazel. On the following Monday, two days afterwards, Dudley Poe Garrett, son of the deceased, officially charged Brazel with the murder.

      Pat Garrett, the famous hunter of desperadoes, was buried in the little graveyard at Las Cruces (The Crosses) on the following Thursday. The cortege was covered with floral offerings, and followed to the grave by his many friends. The funeral was delayed at the request of his brothers, John and A. J. Garrett, of Haynesville, Louisiana, who desired to attend. The pall-bearers were: Hon. George Curry, Governor of New Mexico; Harry Lane, Morgan Llewellyn, Numa G. Buchoz and Thomas Powers. Not being a member of any religious denomination, it was understood as Garrett’s desire, that no minister

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