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PAT GARRETT:
THE MAKING OF A LEGEND
by Don Crowley
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Patrick “Pat” Floyd Garrett (1850-1908) lived a
tragic life of bad decisions and infamous friends. Garrett began his
career in the Old West as a buffalo hunter, then progressed to local
government. In 1880, a $500 bounty was set for the capture of Henry
McCarty (also known as William Harrison Bonney and Billy the Kid), and
Garrett rose to the occasion. As newly elected Sheriff of Lincoln
County, New Mexico in 1881, Garrett and a band of men found McCarty and
his men and forced them to surrender. Garrett arrested McCarty and
brought him to the courthouse, but before he could be executed Billy
escaped, killing two prison guards in his flight.
Determined this time to get it right, Garrett hunted down McCarty
at the home of McCarty’s friend Pete Maxwell. In the darkness of
Maxwell’s house, Garrett shot McCarty through the heart and killed him.
Unfortunately, the execution of the wanted criminal earned Garrett
neither renown nor reward, for Billy had become a local celebrity and
the bounty had been for a live capture.
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