History of "Billy the Kid

This is not a legend told around a campfire. This is the account of a man who hunted Billy the Kid. Charles A. Siringo was a Pinkerton detective assigned to bring in the outlaw, and in this unflinching history, he tells what he saw with his own eyes. The book traces the Kid's journey from a rough New York boy to the most wanted man in the territorial Southwest, detailing the first killings that ignited his reputation, the relationships that shaped him, and the brutal economy of violence that defined the frontier. Siringo writes without romanticism about a world where death came quick and justice came slower. The result is a raw, firsthand portrait of the Wild West in its final, bloody days, and of the man who became a legend simply by surviving it long enough to be remembered.