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Original titleThe Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid, The Noted Desperado of the Southwest
LanguageEnglish
Genrebiography·history
Published

Versions:

  • (Santa Fé, New Mexico Printing and Publishing Company)
  • (New York, The Macmillan Company)
  • (New York, Atomic Books, Inc.)
  • (Houston, The Frontier Press of Texas)
  • (The Western Frontier Library, Norman, University of Oklahoma Press)
  • (New York, Indian Head Books)

The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid is a biography and partly first-hand account written by Pat Garrett, sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, in collaboration with a ghostwriter, Marshall Ashmun "Ash" Upson.

During the summer of in a small New Mexican village, Garrett shot and killed the notorious outlaw, William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid. Due to the first publisher's inability to widely distribute this book beginning in , it sold relatively