Pat Garrett's Relentless Hunt for the outlaw Billy the Kid 

No, I never liked the way he turned on Billy

​@@mikearnold7982 That's my opinion, too. I'm grudging about it but I can't help come to the conclusion that Pat was kind of a sad sack.

Na pat was just chasing glory Billy was being Billy pat tried to ride his fame and failed.

Billy was a thief and a murderer. Nothing to admire here. You wouldn't want him as your neighbor.

Your work is always first rate, Josh. I don't think Pat Garrett was the devil. He was certainly a smart and cunning man, and his pursuit of the Kid displays a very effective use of the people he knew, his and their knowledge of Billy's habits, and his willingness to shoot first and ask questions later. Maybe the death of Carlyle had an impact, but that was one more killing put on the Kid that was probably not his doing. (I think that posse panicked and shot their own, or they would not have run away without a fight.) In any case, maybe Garrett yelled out "Halt" that night in Fort Sumner, or maybe he just shot the guy in the lead on the assumption it was Billy. Bad luck for Tom Folliard either way. The fact Pat ordered his men to shoot the Kid on sight, just a couple of days later at Stinking Spring tells me he was pretty cold hearted and makes me doubt that he gave Folliard any warning. Just my opinion. On the other hand, he willingly protected the Kid and the others from Lynching in Las Vegas, and that meets with other stories that he was willing to fight to see the process done legally. But in the end, I find Garrett to be one who was seeking both money and status, and didn't care who he took out to achieve that. For all his skill set and experience in private life, he was a nobody when chosen to run for Sheriff in 1880. The Kid's testimony to Frank Angel, his testimony in the Dudley inquiry and against the murderers of Huston Chapman display a young man who knew where the bodies were buried among the Santa Fe Ring powerbrokers. I think that record of his intelligence and the threat that represented was at least an equal measure to the desire to snuff him out as any cattle and horse thievery. The Kid understood, per his statements to reporters, that every killing in the County was put on him, and that the public was being made to see him as an animal. Pat Garrett either took the job for the money, the prestige or as a willing player for the Territory Masters. I can't see him any other way. Can't shed a tear over his eventual ending, either. He finally got the receiving end of what he had dished out to the Kid. He trusted the wrong people and was caught unprepared.

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That's awesome! By the way, can you email me when you get a chance? I got something to ask you.

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That is a killer soundtrack you right.

​@@ericcrawford3453always in the car cd stack

Thanks for the info! I didn't know that. From what I saw, Ida passed away fairly young. Any idea what the cause of death was?

@@WildWestExtravaganza Yes sir. She died at the age of 15 from ulcerated tonsillitis.

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The west wing of the Lincoln Courthouse Museum (second floor) is still displayed as a Masonic Hall, as it was established by L.G. Murphy.

You already know!

Im listening to it right now after work 😂😂

@@lawabernathy9256 you bastard! Just kidding but you lucky dog.

@@ericcrawford3453 lmao. I am a bit of a bastard lmao.

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Glad you enjoyed it

You should def listen to the rest of the series as I'll be talking about a lot of that. But Pat wasn't buying land when he was killed. The opposite, in fact. He was definitely broke and trying to sell some land.

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He had jurisdiction after beimg deputized as a deputy US marshal

Unfortunately that's not going to happen any time soon

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Thanks Garrett!!!

Much appreciated

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Listen as your leisure, sir

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Maybe

I haven't seen it yet, unfortunately

I have seen that channel. I did talk a bit about Wilson and Pickett on the Chavez y Chavez episode. Not sure if you heard it yet.

I've only read excerpts. Stuff like that can be very interesting but it's always hard to know where the truth begins and ends

@@WildWestExtravaganza I'll track it down and let you know. Honestly I take all that with a grain of salt. Like Earp, he became so famous because there was no one left to tell the truth😂 Great Show as Always Brother I always visit your sponsors😂 🤜🤛

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Nothing wrong with that!

Welcome aboard!

Not a bad idea

With a friend like that who needs enemies ?

He shoulda got gone but he didn't.

I would have got long gone.

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Cool, I'll see if I can find it. We emailed in the past.

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Welcome I appreciate your efforts and hope my comments help

They do!

I’ll put them all together as one long video next month

That's debatable but I'll be discussing that very thing on next week's episode!

Sounds like you don't

Yer saying that bud light drinkers are light in the loafers?

I like it

I dunno "Convoy" was pretty awful and an obvious money grab. I mean c'mon a movie based on a song?

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I don't remember what I said...care to remind me?