Wild West

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• SOURCE: History.com
  5/14/2020
  

  How Did Billy the Kid Die?

  Even though a widely-accepted account says the outlaw was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico, murky details have led to other theories.

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• 8/18/19
  

  The Ever-Present Billy the Kid: Protagonist of the Old West

  by Richard W. Etulain

  Interest in the Kid remains uniformly high, but the predominant images of him in the past half century in histories, biographies, novels, and films have notably shifted.

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• 10-1-16
  

  The Race of the Century that Marked the End of the Wild West

  by Richard A. Serrano

  9 cowboys. 1,000 miles. And cries that the race was so hard on the horses the riders should be locked up.

• SOURCE: Guardian (UK)
  7-13-13
  

  Debt-ridden Harrisburg to auction Wild West memorabilia

  One of the world's largest collections of Wild West memorabilia, including a poker table that belonged to Wyatt Earp and weapons from Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn, is to be auctioned off next week, to help pay down a Pennsylvania city's burgeoning debts.A former mayor of Harrisburg, Stephen Reed, amassed the artefacts with a view to displaying them in a museum he wanted to build, in order to draw in history-seeking visitors and help revitalise the fortunes of the economically depressed city. But with Harrisburg's debts passing $370m, city leaders voted to put the collection under the hammer. The auction represents an attempt to recover $8m in redevelopment funds that Reed spent on about 10,000 items, during a buying spree in western states."Every item you're able to purchase is an investment in our future," said Linda Thompson, the city's new mayor, who is a vocal opponent of Reed's museum project. "These artefacts had been in the city's archives for a very long time. Here we are at that important moment to see what Harrisburg's history looks like and the opportunities ahead."...