Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid As I Knew Them

by Meadows, John P.

• ISBN13: 9780826333254
• ISBN10: 0826333257
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-15
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Cowboy, army guide, farmer, peace officer, and character in his own right, John P. Meadows arrived in New Mexico from Texas as a young man. During his life in the Southwest, he knew or worked for many well-known characters including: William "Billy the Kid" Bonney, Sheriff Pat Garrett, John Selman, Hugh Beckwith, Charlie Siringo, and Pat Coghlan. Meadows helped investigate the disappearance of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, and later bought part of downtown Tularosa, New Mexico, where he served a term as mayor. The recollections gathered here and edited by John P. Wilson are based on Meadows's interviews with a reporter for the Alamogordo News, a partial transcript of his reminiscences given at the Lincoln State Monument, and a talk he gave by invitation at Roswell, New Mexico, to refute inaccuracies in the 1930 MGM movie Billy the Kid. Meadows's lucid presentation appeared in the Roswell, New Mexico, Daily Record where he spoke about Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid, and other experiences from the Southwest's frontier days.

Table of Contents

Getting Acquainted: Fort Sumner

Billy and the Lincoln County War

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Seven Rivers and Fort Sumner to Silver City in 1880

Southern Arizona and Return to New Mexico, 1880

I Go to Work for Pat Coghlan

How We Guarded One of Pat Garrett's Prisoners

Recovering Stolen Horses from the Indians

Life in the Sacramentos in 1881

Murder of the Nesmith Family

Arresting a Murderer in 1883 in the Agua Chiquita Country

My Association with Pat F. Garrett

The Howe Murder Case

The Cowboys and their Diversions

Experiences in the Early 1890s

Feud Murder on the Sacramento River

Making Hay Where No Grass Grows Now

Calls 'Em Down

Catching a Slippery Cow Thief

Index

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