Physical description

159p. ; black cover with original dust jacket cut and pasted onto front cover featuring cowboy shooting two guns

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Book plate inside front cover 'H & C Hallowell Lending Library Bacchus Marsh' stamp 'Hallowell's Library Bacchus Marsh' stamp 'Bamba Library'

Summary

Kill - or be killed was the code of Billy the Kid, the young New Yorker who became the most feared and hated gunman in the Western States. But nemesis was on his trail - in the form of Sheriff Pat Garret, for whom the capture or death of the audacious and daring Billy the Kid had become a burning ambition. This is the story of these two men, their long battle of search and evasion, until eventually, inevitably, they stood face-to-face on a ranch-house porch. That day their guns blazed and roared, and only one man was standing after the roar and the smoke had cleared ...