tories about Billy the Kid never seem to grow old, not unlike the Kid himself. He was only 20 or 21 (the true story of his birth has yet to be told) when Sheriff Pat Garrett fatally shot him in Fort Sumner, New Mexico Territory, in July 1881, and helped make him, according to , by Kurt House and Roy B. Young, and Mills’ 688-page biography. “Surely there is nothing left to write about Billy the Kid after all these years,” he writes in the preface. “As it turns out there is.”
