On this day in 1881 Billy the Kid was killed by his nemesis, the Sheriff and bounty hunter Pat Garrett, at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Near midnight, the Kid returned from an errand of love or hunger to find someone in his hideout; to his hushed "Quien es? Quien es?," Billy received a fatal shot above the heart. This was also the starting shot for a fiction marathon which shows no signs of being over, and without which, says bio-bibliographer Jon Tuska, the Kid "would have remained an obscure New Mexican horse thief," and a small player in the Lincoln County cattle-baron war. ... FULL STORY »
