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Billy The Kid Analysis

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The Saga of Billy The Kid(1950) chronicles the amazing story of Billy The Kid. The story takes us from his humble beginnings to his bitter end. A sensational and enthralling journey, it is the story of an innocent boy who was doomed form the first time he stepped foot on the hot desert sand out West. This text opens by setting the stage for the events that would take place. It opens with a few chapters about cattle ranchers who knew and were friendly with Billy. One of these men, John Chisum, was one of Billy's best friends and even offered him refuge from the law when he had gotten into trouble. Once the stage had been set the little bit of background that is known of Billy's family life is discussed by the author for a chapter. Once Billy's …show more content…

This book, at the time of it's publishing, had very minuscule amounts of information about Billy The Kid to work with. The author uses many tales of men and women who claim to have known, met or seen Billy at some point in their life, and that's where a gargantuan fault within this book lies, many of these stories may just be that, stories. There is no possible way to fact check these people, because nobody can confirm or deny if they really did meet or talk to Billy. This is a point of great contention for myself, it adds an air of question ability to the text, for all I know the stories may very well be true, but sometimes you can't trust word of mouth. Another bothering point about the sources is that the author uses a book written by Pat Garret which is subject to two unforgivable aspects: it is heavily biased against Billy in order to paint Pat Garret as a hero, and two it was embellished by Pat Garrets ghost writer who wrote most of the story for him. So this story may only be promulgating more false facts about Billy to all those who read it. Nonetheless form the research and fact checks I did on this book most of the information given by the author seems to be, at most, partially

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