Robert M. Utley is a preeminent historian of the West and the author of numerous award-winning books, including The Last Days of the Sioux Nation; Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 (Nebraska, 1981); Custer and the Great Controversy: The Origin and Development of a Legend (Nebraska, 1998); and Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 (Bison Books, 1984).
"A gripping, compelling yarn you can't afford to miss. This is the
western book of the year--any year."--Books of the Southwest
"A saga as thrilling as it is meticulously documented."--Boston
Globe
"An excellent book. Cool scholarship reveals a factual Billy much
scarier than the one of the legend."--Ian Frazier, author of The
Great Plains
"Historian Robert M. Utley has provided us with the best portrait
to date of the real Kid, from his shrouded origins in New York City
to the escalating criminal career that ended only when lawman Pat
Garrett surprised him with a bullet. . . . Utley's [book] is
valuable both for its careful separation of fact from fiction . . .
and for its thoughtful treatment of the Kid as an American frontier
symbol."--Washington Post
"It's certain to remain the authoritative biography that at last
makes the Kid's life whole and understandable."--San Francisco
Chronicle
"Noteworthy for its massive research, exciting reconstruction of
several gun battles, and Utley's refusal to be suckered into the
Kid-as-Hero myth."--Kirkus Reviews
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