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More information on this controversial period will be found in these other Sunstone Press books: Alias Billy the Kid by Donald Cline, Sheriff Pat Garrett's Last Days by Colin Rickards, The Death of Billy the Kid by John William Poe, The Real Billy the Kid by Miguel Antonio Otero, Stalking Billy the Kid by Marc Simmons, The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid by Pat Garrett, Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life by Blanche Grant, and Dynamite and Six-Shooter by Jeff Burton. Donald R. Lavash was a historian on the staff of the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives and was a specialist in American Southwest history. 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He has been maligned by writers, libeled by Hollywood and deprecated by many of his contemporaries. But despite them, all his deeds retain for him a niche in the gallery of fast shooting peace officers who helped to bring law and order to the frontier West. When he died, there was rejoicing in some quarters and relief in others--as might be expected in the case of a controversial figure. There was also genuine and profound sorrow in the rugged hearts of many in New Mexico, Texas and Arizona, as well as farther afield, and the circumstances surrounding his death, ostensibly at the hands of a most unlikely cowboy named Wayne Brazel, have puzzled and intrigued historians since that spring day in 1908 when he was shot to death and left lying in a sand drift on a lonely road. But was Pat Garrett shot by Wayne Brazel, or hired killer Jim Miller? Brazel confessed, but few believed his story and he was acquitted. 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