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Kiddy lit
Tombstone, Arizona, may be known as "the town too tough to die," but it's the saga of Billy the Kid that can best be summed up as "the legend too tough to die." Many people still believe that Billy, who was shot dead by Pat Garrett in the summer of 1881 near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, killed 21 men -- one for each year of his short life. But fact and fiction have often been bedmates in Billy's bunk, and trying to sort reality from the romantic has been a daunting task faced by many historians and writers.See the full content of this document
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Mixed Media
New Mexico historian and author Gale Cooper, who penned a 2008 novel about Billy called Joy of the Birds, speaks about "Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War as Literature" from noon to 12:45 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 22,...
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