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Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (June 5, 1850 – February 29, 1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent known for killing Billy the Kid. He was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, as well as Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

Early years ~

Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett was born on June 5, 1850, in Chambers County, Alabama. He was the second of five children born to John Lumpkin Garrett and his wife Elizabeth Ann Jarvis. Garrett's four siblings were Margaret, Elizabeth, John, and Alfred. Garrett was of English ancestry, and his ancestors migrated to America from the English counties of Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire and Buckinghamshire. When Pat was three years old his father purchased the John Greer plantation in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. The Civil War, however, destroyed the Garrett family's finances. Their mother died at the age of 37 on March 25, 1867, when Garrett was 16. Then the following year, on February 5, 1868, his father died at age 45. The children were left with a plantation that was more than $30,000 in debt. The children were taken in by relatives. The 18-year-old Garrett headed west from Louisiana on January 25, 1869.

A young Pat Garrett.

Buffalo hunter ~

Garrett's whereabouts over the next seven years are obscure. By 1876 he was in Texas hunting buffalo. During this period Garrett killed his first man, another buffalo hunter named Joe Briscoe. Garrett surrendered to the authorities at Fort Griffin, Texas, but they declined to prosecute. When the buffalo hunting declined, Garrett left Texas and rode to the New Mexico Territory. When Garrett arrived at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, he found work as a bartender, then as a cowboy for Pedro Menard "Pete" Maxwell.

Family life ~

Garrett's first wife was Juanita Martinez, who died 15 days after their marriage. The reference Leon C. Metz made about Juanita being the older sister of Pat's second wife Apolonia is unfounded. Apolonia only had a sister by the name of Celsa Gutierrez. On January 14, 1880, Garrett married Apolinaria Gutierrez. Between 1881 and 1905 Apolinaria Garrett gave birth to eight children: Ida, Dudley, Elizabeth, Annie, Patrick, Pauline, Oscar, and Jarvis.

First wife.

Second wife, Apolonaria.

Pursuit of Billy the Kid ~

Billy the Kid, William Henry Bonney, Jr also known as William McCarty was wanted for murder in the aftermath of the Lincoln County War. On November 2, 1880, Garrett was elected sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, having defeated the incumbent, Sheriff George Kimball, by a vote of 320 to 179. Although Garrett's term would not begin until January 1, 1881, Sheriff Kimball appointed him a deputy sheriff for the remainder of Kimball's term. Garrett also obtained a deputy U.S. Marshal's commission, which allowed him to pursue the Kid across state lines. Garrett and his posse stormed the Dedrick ranch at Bosque Grande on November 30, 1880. They expected to find the Kid there, but only succeeded in capturing John Joshua Webb, who had been charged with murder, along with an accused horse thief named George Davis. Garrett turned Webb and Davis over to the sheriff of San Miguel County a few days later, and moved on to the settlement of Puerto de Luna. There a local tough named Mariano Leiva picked a fight with Garrett and was shot in the shoulder.

William Bonney. AKA Billy the Kid.

On December 19, 1880, Billy the Kid, Charlie Bowdre, Tom Pickett, Billy Wilson, Dave Rudabaugh, and Tom O'Folliard rode into Fort Sumner. Lying in wait were deputy Garrett and his posse. Mistaking O'Folliard for the Kid, Garrett's men opened fire and killed O'Folliard. Billy and the others escaped unharmed. Three days later, Garrett's posse cornered Billy and his companions at a spot called Stinking Springs. They killed Bowdre and captured the others. On April 15, 1881, Billy the Kid was sentenced to hang by Judge Warren Bristol, but escaped thirteen days later, killing two deputies.

On July 14, 1881, Garrett visited Fort Sumner to question a friend of the Kid's about his whereabouts and learned he was staying with a mutual friend, Pedro Menard "Pete" Maxwell. Around midnight, Garrett went to Maxwell's house. The Kid was asleep in another part of the house, but woke up in the middle of the night and entered Maxwell's bedroom, where Garrett was standing in the shadows. The Kid did not recognize the man standing in the dark. He asked him, repeatedly, "¿Quién es?" ("Who is it?"), and Garrett replied by shooting at him twice. The first shot hit the Kid in the chest just above the heart, while the second missed. Garrett’s account leaves it unclear whether Billy was killed instantly or took some time to die.

Newspaper account of Billy's killing by Pat Garrett at the Maxwell house.

Account of Billy the Kid ~

Garrett coauthored The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid with Ash Upson, and for decades his book was deemed authoritative.

Following Billy the Kid's death, writers quickly went to work producing books and articles that made a folk hero out of Billy the Kid, while making Garrett seem like an assassin. Although filled with many errors of fact, The Authentic Life served afterward as the main source for most books written about the Kid until the 1960s. A failure when originally released, an original copy of the Pat Garrett-Ash Upson book became a rare commodity; in 1969 the original 1882 edition of the Garrett-Upson book was described by Ramon F. Adams as being "exceedingly rare." Twentieth-century editions of Garrett's Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid (with alterations to the original title) appeared in 1927, 1946 and 1964.

Texas Ranger ~

Garrett did not seek re-election as sheriff of Lincoln County in 1882. He moved to Texas, where he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the state senate. Garrett became a captain with the Texas Rangers for less than a month, then returned to Roswell, New Mexico.

Middle years

Irrigation investments and move to Texas ~

Garrett discovered a large reservoir of artesian water in the Roswell region and went into partnership with two men to organize the "Pecos Valley Irrigation and Investment Company" on July 18, 1885. Garrett kept his irrigation schemes alive for several years, and on January 15, 1887, he purchased a one-third interest in the "Texas Irrigation Ditch Company", but the partners got rid of him. On August 15, 1887, he formed a partnership with William L. Holloman in the "Holloman and Garrett Ditch Company." All of Garrett's forays into the irrigation field, however, resulted in failure. By 1892, Garrett had moved his large family to Uvalde, Texas, where he became close friends with John Nance Garner (1868–1967), a future vice president of the United States. Garrett might have lived out the remainder of his life in Uvalde, had it not been for a headline-making event back in New Mexico.

Disappearance of Albert Jennings Fountain ~

On January 31, 1896, Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain and his eight-year-old son Henry disappeared at the edge of the White Sands area of southern New Mexico. Neither of the Fountains were ever seen again. The mystery was never officially solved, even with the efforts of Apache scouts, the Pinkertons, and an all-out push by the Republican Party. In April 1896, Garrett was appointed sheriff of Doña Ana County, and two years later had gathered sufficient evidence to make arrests, asking a judge in Las Cruces for warrants to arrest Oliver M. Lee, William McNew, Bill Carr and James Gililland. Within hours, he had arrested McNew and Carr.

Albert J. Fountain.

During the early morning hours of July 12, 1898 Garrett and his posse confronted Oliver M. Lee and James Gililland at a spot called "Wildy Well" near Orogrande, New Mexico. Garrett had hoped to capture the fugitives while they were sleeping, but Lee and Gililland expected trouble and took their bedrolls up to the roof of the bunkhouse to avoid being taken by surprise. One of Garrett's deputies named Kearney heard footsteps on the roof, scaled a ladder, and was mortally wounded by the fugitives. A stray shot nicked Garrett. Due to his concern for his dying deputy, Garrett arranged a truce with the fugitives and withdrew while Kearney was lifted into a wagon. Kearney, however, died on the road to Las Cruces, and Lee and Gililland remained at large for another eight months, before they finally surrendered to Sheriff George Curry. They were found not guilty in the Fountain killings, and the indictments for killing the deputy were also dismissed.

Final kill ~

Garrett killed his last offender in 1899, a fugitive named Norman Newman, who was wanted for murder in Greer County, Oklahoma. Newman was hiding out at the San Augustin Ranch in New Mexico. Sheriff George Blalock of Greer County went to New Mexico and asked Garrett for his assistance. The lawmen and Jose Espalin, one of Garrett's deputies, rode to the ranch, and on October 7, 1899, Newman was killed in a gunfight.

Presidential appointment in El Paso ~

On December 16, 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt nominated Garrett to the post of collector of customs in El Paso. He also became one of President Roosevelt's three "White House Gunfighters" (Bat Masterson and Ben Daniels being the others). Despite public outcry over his appointment, Garrett was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 2, 1902. Garrett's tenure as El Paso's collector of customs was stormy from the start. On May 8, 1903, he got into a public fistfight with an employee named George Gaither. The following morning, both Garrett and Gaither paid five dollar fines for disturbing the peace. Continued complaints about Garrett's alleged incompetence were sent to Washington. Through it all, President Roosevelt stood by Garrett. As a show of his support, Roosevelt invited Garrett to attend a Rough Riders reunion being held in San Antonio during April 1905. Since Garrett had not been a member of that regiment, Roosevelt's invitation was taken as a snub at those critics who wanted Garrett replaced from his post. Garrett brought a guest of his own to the event named Tom Powers. Garrett introduced Powers to the president as "a prominent Texas cattleman." Garrett and Powers posed for two photographs with Roosevelt, first standing with him in a group and later seated with Roosevelt at dinner. Garrett's enemies obtained copies of the photos and sent them to Roosevelt, informing the president that instead of being the "cattleman" that Garrett claimed, Powers was, in fact, the owner of a "notorious dive" in El Paso called the Coney Island Saloon. That was the final straw for Roosevelt, who replaced Garrett with a new collector of customs on January 2, 1906.

Later years

Financial problems ~

Following his dismissal, Garrett returned with his family to New Mexico. Garrett was in deep financial difficulty. His ranch had been heavily mortgaged, and when he was unable to make payments, the county auctioned off all of Garrett's personal possessions to satisfy judgments against him. The total from the auction came to $650. President Roosevelt had appointed Pat's friend George Curry as the territorial governor of New Mexico. Garrett met with Curry, who promised him the position of superintendent of the territorial prison at Santa Fe, once he was inaugurated. Since Curry's inauguration was still months away, the destitute Garrett left his family in New Mexico and returned to El Paso, where he found employment with the real estate firm of H.M. Maple and Company. During this period Garrett moved in with a woman known as "Mrs. Brown", who was described as an El Paso prostitute. When Governor-elect Curry learned of his involvement with Brown, the promised appointment of prison superintendent was withdrawn.

Last conflict and death ~

Dudley Poe Garrett, Pat's son, had signed a five-year lease for his Bear Canyon Ranch with Jesse Wayne Brazel. Garrett and his son objected when Brazel began bringing in large herds of goats, which were anathema to cattlemen like Garrett. Garrett tried to break the lease when he learned that the money for Brazel's operation had been put up by his neighbor, W. W. "Bill" Cox. He was further angered when he learned that Archie Prentice "Print" Rhode was Brazel's partner in the huge goat herd. When Brazel refused, the matter went to court. At this point James B. Miller met with Garrett to try to solve the problem. Miller met with Brazel, who agreed to cancel his lease with Garrett – provided a buyer could be found for his herd of 1,200 goats. Carl Adamson, who was related to Miller by marriage, agreed to buy the 1,200 goats. Just when the matter seemed resolved, Brazel claimed that he had "miscounted" his goat herd, claiming there were actually 1,800 – rather than his previous estimate of 1,200. Adamson refused to buy that many goats, but agreed to meet with Garrett and Brazel to see if they could reach some sort of agreement.

Garrett and Carl Adamson rode together, heading from Las Cruces, New Mexico, in Adamson's wagon. Brazel appeared on horseback along the way. Garrett was shot and killed, but exactly by whom remains the subject of controversy. Brazel and Adamson left the body by the side of the road and returned to Las Cruces, where Brazel surrendered to Deputy Sheriff Felipe Lucero. More than thirty years later, Lucero claimed that Brazel exclaimed, "Lock me up. I've just killed Pat Garrett!" Brazel then pointed to Adamson and said, "He saw the whole thing and knows that I shot in self-defense." Lucero incarcerated Brazel, summoned a coroner's jury, and rode to Garrett's death site. Brazel's trial for Garrett's murder concluded on May 4, 1909. Brazel was represented at his trial by attorney and future Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall. The only eyewitness to Garrett's murder, Adamson, never appeared at the trial, which lasted only one day and ended with an acquittal.

Identity of the murderer ~

The coroner's report on Garrett's death states that Brazel shot Garrett. Brazel reportedly confessed, but was acquitted at trial. Four other suspects have been proposed: Adamson, Cox, Rhode, and Miller. In a book published in 1970, Glenn Shirley gave his reasons for naming Miller as the killer of Pat Garrett. Leon C. Metz in his 1974 biography of Garrett related the claim of W.T. Moyers that "his investigations led him to believe that [W. W.] Cox himself ambushed and killed Garrett," but also wrote that "[t]he Garrett family believes that Carl Adamson pulled the trigger." In his 2010 book on Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, Mark Lee Gardner suggests that Archie Prentice "Print" Rhode killed Garrett.

Jesse Wayne Brazel.

Death site ~

The site of Garrett's death is now commemorated by a historical marker south of U.S. Route 70, between Las Cruces, New Mexico and the San Augustin Pass. The historical marker is located about 1.2 miles from where Garrett was murdered. In 1940 his son, Jarvis Garrett, marked the spot with a monument consisting of concrete laid around a stone with a cross carved in it. The cross is believed to be the work of Garrett's mother. Scratched in the concrete is "P. Garrett" and the date of his killing. The marker is located in the desert. In 2020, the city of Las Cruces revealed plans for a development that would destroy the site. An organization called Friends of Pat Garrett has been formed to ensure that the city preserves the site and marker.

Cement slab marks the spot of Garrett's death.

Funeral and burial site ~

At six feet five inches, Garrett's body was too tall for any finished coffins available, so a special one had to be shipped in from El Paso. His funeral service was held March 5, 1908, and he was laid to rest next to his daughter, Ida, who had died in 1896 at the age of fifteen. Garrett's grave and the graves of his descendants are in the Masonic Cemetery, Las Cruces.

Portrayals ~

Garrett has been a character in many films and television shows, and has been portrayed by:

NOTE:

Because of his height, during his early days in New Mexico, local Spanish speakers nicknamed Garrett "Juan Largo" (Long John.)

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More than Pat Garrett's wife ~

By David Stevens, Publisher

We will never know much about her life, which ended after just 19 years. We also don't know much about her death, though much has been written about that.

What we do know is her memory is forever being reserved by family members who still care about her more than 140 years after her passing.

This is the story, as best it can be pieced together, of Juanita Martinez Garrett.

She's been in the news lately because the Wild West History Association and family members recently placed a memorial to her at the small cemetery south of Fort Sumner where the outlaw Billy the Kid is also buried.

Juanita Martinez Garrett. Pat's first wife.

Researchers believe she is buried at the site near family friend Lucien Maxwell and others who lived in the area in the 1870s.

She is best known as the first wife of legendary lawman Pat Garrett, who killed Billy the Kid in 1881. That's why Wild West lovers care about her today. That and her mysterious death.

Pat Garrett historian Mark Gardner wrote in his book "To Hell on a Fast Horse," that Juanita and her new husband were celebrating their recent marriage with friends when she became ill in the fall of 1879.

"(A)s the guests watched the newlyweds dance, Juanita suddenly collapsed in what was described as some kind of fit or attack. She was quickly carried to a bed in a nearby room, where she died the next day."

Her ancestors and some historians believe Juanita actually died about three weeks after her marriage to Garrett, but no one knows what caused her death. The family members who've been researching her life are mostly convinced she died from stress, concerned that her marriage had not been blessed by God.

"I was told that although Juanita was a devout Catholic, Pat Garrett wasn't," said Louise Espinoza Shaffer, whose great-grandmother was Juanita's sister.

"When they were married, the ceremony was not performed by a Catholic priest but by the Justice of the Peace. During the ceremony in Fort Sumner, a candle blew out and Juanita took it as an omen that her marriage wasn't real and not blessed of God."

As a result, Shaffer said, Juanita became "so sick with worry" that it led to her death.

Shaffer, who lives in Florence, Colo., said the same story has been told repeatedly through generations of other family members as well.

Whether stress caused her death or not, we know at least that Juanita's faith was an important part of her life.

Here's what else we know about her, through family research:

She was born in May 1860 to Antonio Domingo Martinez and Maria Manuela Trujillo in Taos, New Mexico Territory. She was the fourth child of seven, but three of her siblings died in infancy or during childbirth.

In April 1870, Shaffer said, Juanita's mother died while giving birth to a daughter who also died. The family lived in Cimarron at that time.

Soon after her mother's death, Juanita's uncle - Celedon Trujillo - moved to Fort Sumner with his employer, Lucien Maxwell. Trujillo took other family members with him, including Juanita and her sister Emilia.

"I think about Emilia and Juanita having to leave their father, their sister and little brother so soon after the death of their mother and it breaks my heart," Shaffer said. "How hard that must have been."

Something else we know about Juanita Martinez is that she grew into a "sparkling" young woman in Fort Sumner, who "had the charm of gaiety and light-heartedness." That's according to one of her friends, the late Paulita Maxwell Jaramillo of Fort Sumner, whose words appear in Walter Noble Burns' book, "The Saga of Billy the Kid: The Thrilling Life of America's Original Outlaw," published in 1925.

Juanita knew the Kid, who was closely acquainted with the Maxwells and Juanita's Uncle Celedon. But it was Garrett who captured her fancy, likely at a community dance. Juanita was "always surrounded by admirers at our dances," Jaramillo said. "Everyone loved her and mourned for her when an unkind fate changed her bridal gown into a shroud three weeks after her wedding."

So we do know a little about Juanita Martinez Garrett's life. She was a woman of strong faith, she overcame family tragedy as a child, she loved to dance, she was described as "sparkling," and her family cares enough about her to keep her legacy alive more than 140 years after her death.

We should all be so fortunate.

David Stevens writes about regional history for Clovis Media Inc.

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From The

New Mexico Farm and Ranch Museum receives ‘Pat Garrett hearse’ ~

Staff Report, August 26, 2020, 8:30 pm

The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum is the new — and perhaps final — home of a historic hearse that was used in Las Cruces from 1894-1912.

The horse-drawn wagon is known by many as “the Pat Garrett hearse” or “Pat Garrett’s Last Ride” because it likely delivered the famous lawman to his Las Cruces grave in 1908.

The late local historian, Cal Traylor, purchased the hearse from a museum in Piños Altos, N.M., and donated it to the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department Historical Museum of Lawmen in 2012.

The small museum recently closed and its artifacts have been dispersed to various agencies for preservation. The Sheriff’s Department delivered the hearse to the Farm & Ranch Museum on Wednesday, Aug. 26.

“We are very appreciative to the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum for taking this important piece of our history,” said Doña Ana County Sheriff Kim Stewart. “So many more people and generations will get to see it here. I love history and this needs to be preserved and displayed in something that’s more than an office space. The Farm & Ranch Museum is a gem in our midst and we should all appreciate the value of it.”

The Farm & Ranch Museum, which is temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is well equipped to preserve the artifact and showcase it to the public, adding it to its large collection of wagons, carriages, and buggies.

“We are grateful that the Sheriff’s Department saved this historic piece through the years and we are happy to have it as part of our collection,” said Holly Radke, Curator of Collections at the Farm & Ranch Museum.

Garrett was probably one of many prominent Las Crucens that the hearse carried. Garrett, best known for killing Billy the Kid in 1881 when he was sheriff of Lincoln County, later became sheriff of Doña Ana County. He was shot to death east of Las Cruces in 1908.

According to the Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum’s Curator of History, Leah Tookey, the women’s Improvement Association (WIA) of Las Cruces purchased the wagon in 1894.

When the WIA was still in its infancy, members decided there should be a more dignified way of conveying the recently departed to their final resting place, (previously an ice wagon was used for this task) so they purchased an old horse-drawn wagon they found on a ranch near Las Cruces. It was painted gray and the cab had been removed. Chickens were roosting in the cargo bed.

The ladies of the WIA had the hearse shipped by rail into the city where it was restored by Jack Fountain.

“The hearse could be rented for use by anyone who lived in Las Cruces for the price of $10 – $5 of which went to the local livery stable to pay for the horse, driver, feed, etc,” museum officials shared.

“There is no doubt that many famous Las Cruces residents took their final ride in the hearse as it was the only one available until 1912 when Thomas Graham purchased a new horseless hearse for use at his funeral home.”

Later, this hearse was purchased by the Amador family and even later a rancher named Ollie Isaacks. He took the cab off of the wagon again and used it as a farm wagon during World War II when gasoline was expensive and hard to get.

Eventually, Bob Stepp bought it and intended to put it in his museum of Southwestern New Mexico history. When Stepp’s plans for a museum fell through he sold it to Frank Tatsch who put the hearse back together, reinstalled the glass windows, velvet curtains, decorative corner posts, and replaced the rubber that covered the steel-rimmed wheels.

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History of the Marker ~

There is a lot of confusion about how the site where Pat Garrett was killed was marked. Now, thanks to research by author David G. Thomas, the facts are finally known.

In a 1969 newspaper interview, Emmett J. Isaacks said that he and his brother,

“…the late Will [Isaacks], heard the shot that killed Pat Garrett…. They were trailing cattle nearby, and by the time they reached the scene, Garrett was lying on the ground, covered over with a carriage blanket.”

In an introduction to a new 1964 edition of his Father’s book, “The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid,” Jarvis Garrett, Pat Garrett’s son, wrote:

“About fifteen years ago, while on a visit to Las Cruces from Venezuela, I chanced to meet Will Isaacs [sic]…. The conversation turned to my father’s death, and he told me that he was present when Brazel surrendered to Sheriff Lucero, following which he went to the murder scene…. I was very appreciative when he offered to show [me] the exact spot of the murder.”

“We drove about four miles east on the modern highway, stopped the car, and walked along the arroyo bed for another mile in the same direction. After some difficulty, he found the marker, a round stone, which he had placed there in 1908.”

The stone at the site with the cross carved in it was placed there by Will Isaacs in 1908. The cement around the stone was placed there November 6, 1965. Source: Killing Pat Garrett, the Wild West’s Most Famous Lawman – Murder or Self-Defense?

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Pat Garrett in 1906.

Portrait of Pat Garrett (c. 1907) from The Story of the Outlaws.

Juanita Martinez Garrett. Pat Garrett's first wife.

Pat Garrett, with his second wife, Apolonaria.

Pat Garrett and his daughter, Pauline.

Elizabeth (Daughter).

Pat F. (son).

Jarvis (son).

Jarvis with Deanne P. Wells.

William Bonney, AKA Billy the Kid.

Garrett, (tall man at left) with President Roosevelt and others.

Jesse Wayne Brazel seated between Jim Lee and Will Craven. Brazel confessed to killing Garrett but was never brought to justice for the crime.

Albert J. Fountain.

Left, Pat Garrett; right, John W. Poe, who succeeded Garrett; center , James Brent, who came a short time after Poe.

Billy the Kid's rifle at the Billy the Kid Museum.

Catherine Williamson, Director of entertainment memorabilia at auction house Bonhams, holds the Colt single-action Army revolver.

Pat Garret's widow with gun that killed Billy the Kid.

The Colt single-action Army revolver used to kill Billy the Kid is pictured during a media preview in Los Angeles, California.

PAT GARRETT 1850-1908 “RIDE TO DESTINY” – ROSWELL PIONEER PLAZA, ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO.

Memorial marking spot where Garrett was killed.

Garrett Family Plot ~

Pat Garrett Sr. ~

Juanita Martinez Garrett ~

The memorial to Juanita Martinez Garrett was placed at the old Fort Sumner cemetery.

Back of monument.

Apolonaria Garrett ~

El Paso Times, Oct. 22, 1936, Thurs. Page-1.

Anna Garrett ~

Dudley Poe Garrett ~

Cavern City Chronicle, (Carlsbad, N.M.), Dec. 12, 1930, Fri.

Roswell Daily Record. Dec. 9, 1930, Tue. Page-1.

Albuquerque Journal, Dec. 10, 1930, Wed. Page-1.

Elizabeth Garrett ~

Elizabeth; Las Cruces Sun-News, Oct. 17, 1947, Fri. Page-1.

Ida Garrett ~

Jarvis Garrett ~

May 22, 1991.

Oscar Garrett ~

El Paso Times, Mar. 23, 1952, Sunday, Page-1.

Las Cruces Sun-News, Mar. 23, 1952, Sunday, Page-1.

Pauline Garrett ~

Albuquerque Tribune, Mar. 9, 1981, Page-29.

Patrick F. Garrett Jr. ~

Check signed by Pat Garrett.

Body of Billy the Kid was laid out on this workbench.

Peter Maxwell’s house at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Billy the Kid was killed here.

Knife that Billy the Kid was holding when Garrett shot him sold at auction for $118,000.

Lincoln County Courthouse.

The oath of office that Pat Garrett signed.

Mining stock certificate that Garrett signed.

Signature of Patrick 'Pat' Floyd Garrett.

The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid by Pat Garrett.

Roll Top Desk and Chair Used by Pat Garrett as Dona Ana County Sheriff.

LP record issued for the movie.

Record label.

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