Inventing Billy the Kid: Visions of the Outlaw in America, 1881-1981

By Stephen Tatum

Book Overview

'Tatum...does a masterful job of cutting through the many obscurities and complexities of the events surrounding the Kid's brief life. He manages to demonstrate convincingly the manner in which the 'invented' Kid is logical product of the cultural preoccupation so the age that produces him. This is probably the best book on Billy the Kid produced to date.'

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826306101
• ISBN13: 9780826306104
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: University Of New Mexico Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.