The Truth About Sheriff Pat Garrett 

My father, a former lawman in the late 1940"s, was a business man in the 1960's. He was based in Texas, but frequently was in New Mexico, where he was introduced to Jarvis Garrett. Garrett gave my father an autographed copy of his father's book. Upon my father's death in 1982, I came into possession of this book. It was an interesting read to say the least. And being a lawman for decades myself, I must admit it was a source of inspiration to me. My family were all peace officers since 1882, and ended with my own retirement in 2002. And every one of us were involved in shootings with armed fellons during our careers. Being of a family of lawmen, I was a great admirer of the lawmen of the west. Of those I held highest was Bass Reeves. He was uncompromising a great peace officer, and among my childhood heroes.

Crazy how my Texas history class rarely mentioned the cattle wars of West Texas and New Mexico

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Love these compilations Josh! Perfect evening's entertainment! Snacks, drinks & WWE! 🤘🍕🍾🍸🤠 👍

Josh.. Have you considered publishing you broadcasts.would be great reading when no internet available…

I'm gonna have to listen to this 7 times, because I'm tuning in at bedtime. But, listen I must. Thanks Josh!

This is so amazing keep history alive.Thank you for sharing

You do very nice work. Every time. Much appreciated Peace

Saving this 3hr Banger for the weekend . Thank you Josh

Questioning religion makes me become a fan of the man

I really appreciate your history lessons with each episode, and your humor is over the top

History of the Wild West is fascinating… this channel is awesome, a BIG thumbs up from 🇬🇧👍🏻👍🏻 🤠

When I was commercial fishing we had an old cook named Dutch. The food was great but don’t watch him cook it lol. Sweat would run down the tip of his nose a drop on the flat griddle and sizzle

Thank you Josh. If I don't hear from you before Sunday, Happy Father's Day!! For you, and all the dads out there...

You do such very good stuff love listening to you keep on doing what you ate doing thank you 😊

I haven’t been this early since I saw Billy the Kid get abducted by the aliens.

You are brilliant, Josh! I discovers this channel maybe less than a week ago and have binged so many of your videos , particularly the complications. I usually put on podcasts as background noise, but I absolutely can’t do that with these, they’re too darn interesting not to pay full attention.

Hi from Australia. Love the channel 👍

For some reason his pistol sold for $6,030,313. For some reason it sold for way more than other lawmen and outlaws. As far as running into Wyatt November 27, 1879 in the Butter Bar in Jerome, Arizona Territory. I’m still amazed that Garrett didn’t get a picture of Billy this was done a lot back then. There’s a picture out there is a picture of Billy and another fellow dancing and Pat playing fiddle and a picture of Billy playing cards with 3 other guys

I found your El Paso Times article. Just emailed you with an image of the full page from the newspaper.

Right on! Keeping the needle moving, my man!!

I live in ireland and I find this fascinating, I think you have a very distinctive voice, I love listening to it

(Insert high pitched voice) But Josh….theres no way Pat killed Brushy…… PALS…

In Kansas, anyone from Missouri is a bushwacker😊 Love the longer epsodes

JOSH AND WEDNESDAY IN EFFECT!......the world is at peace again.....🙂🙂

made my evening better again. Thanks always,

In the movie the "The Kid" Pat Garrett was played by Ethan Hawke. He was portrayed as a lethal paragon of morality. What a load of horse crap! The movie was pretty damn good if you suspend reality for around 90 minutes.

You make the best documentary’s my man, I imagine myself at a camp fire drinking coffee and just listening to u, u got a gift my man of bringing history to life

Good episode. Quick thing: Briscoe was not a partner. It was only Glenn, Garrett, and Duke starting the partnership. The three men encountered Briscoe at Frank Conrad's store at Fort Griffin. They also encountered a man named Nick Ross (alias Nick Buck) and a cook named Grundy Burns. The Garrett-Glenn party began in the Double Mountain country, approximately 100 miles north of present day Abilene.

I always get a few laughs hearing you, e.g., that you wouldn't be eating food prepared by a cook named Grunge and referring to Biily the Kid as BTK😂. It took a lot of courage to live in those times, especially trekking through Indian territory where the Commanches roamed free. I wonder what the average life expectancy was at that time. Thanks for all the research you put into your videos. By the way, I don't think Pat Garrett was a coward. Billy was a wily and cautious desperado who had eluded authorities time and time again so why wouldn't Garrett take whatever opportunity presented itself to do what he had to do? It was hard enough to track Billy down with little cooperation in "Billy territory," and how would it look if he allowed Billy to win again after he just recently escaped from the grips of jailers Olinger and Bell. No, it came down to either him or Billy, and just like it stated in Lee Wallace's Wanted Poster, 'Dead or Alive' so no one should blame or accuse Garrett of being a coward considering the circumstances. It was a job.

My niece and I give you two thumbs up for the extravaganza!

Watch out boys...hes rolln those rrr'sin the intro...banger alert.

I was wrong on the tv show tombstone territory , that old show was the Tall man ,sorry

Good evening sir!

Oh boy here we go , let the arguing begin.

been a minute since i seen one of these pop up. hope all is well! keep doing ur thing josh.

Let's get 40K more subscribers with this video.

Intergalactic & Billy the Kid wow, sounds like Josh is going deep diving tonight.🤟

All your stuff is good! 🍻

I haven’t listened yet but 3 hours? Damn Josh, you the man!

Lets be honest, neither man was interested in a hollow type duel.

@Josh-Are you sure “Juan Largo” or “Long John” was because of his tall frame? My limited Spanish would say “Juan Alto” would be more indicative of height, but what do I know? Those señoritas sure knew something!

Nothing I despise more than a disloyal sonbeach. Nothing I love more than a three hour bloody upload. Keep em coming J. THUMBSUP

Josh , does this comments not accept links ? I tried 4 times but it kept disappearing...

Today is 16 June, 2024 HAPPY FATHERS DAY, JOSH! Hope you, the little lady and the little one have a blessed and wonderful day! Cheers from Southwest Louisiana!!

thanks hammer as always good stuff

Excellent series Josh. Have you ever read Killing Pat Garret The Wild West Most Famous Lawman Murder or Self Defense by David G. Thomas if so what did you think of it? I have been thinking about ordering this book

What a good listen for old West fans..I thought the Billy series was good..but I guess Pat got a hellavu tale to be told you did it josh that part were Garrett turn and kissed homie had me dying.. hey do you do any shows outside of westerns ? Any way thanks for the hiurs of entertainment ✌🏻

I love the work you present in these videos. There are a lot of sites that are accurate as far as they know. Most of them like you try to tell history, not legend.

I am Garrett's son because we have the same name?😅😅😅 Great episode with an honest opinion.

Josh... You. Are. Awesome. Keep doing your thing!

Thank you for the rolling of your 'R' !

Josh!! Thanks bud

Absolutely top notch work! I have a lot of respect for the work you do 🫡

Looks like Garrett's old lady's name, should have been, Wall Eye Garrett! 😂

Hell yeah brother

And people actually believe he would not wait no matter how long it took to get a camera and take a picture I mean that would get him in the governor's office.

Pat Garrett looked like a tweaker!

Thx again Josh

Imagine being 6 foot 4 back then 😂,

Can you do an episode of Dallas Stoudenmire

I wonder why they didn’t take a death pic of wild bill, I know I’m changing topic, 🤪just curious

0:47 The worst of the worst. The Rosy Cheek Gang. 🤣👍🍻

The truth of the matter is the only one that got this right and proved that he was correct was brushy Bill Roberts. He said Tom's name was Tom O. Falliard. Brushy bill is the only one that got this right even historians were calling him o'falliard.

This gonna be fun 😎

Yes!! I was going into withdrawals.

I don't even know about Pat Garrett multiple people said that he ran away screaming like a woman as did his deputies. This was after the supposed shooting of the kid and because he believed he only wounded him or perhaps didn't even hit him at all he was running screaming. Selena Maxwell came outside told Pat Garrett once again he had shot the wrong man and finally they got him calmed down to come back and look at the body. He told multiple friends that he thought for sure that that was Billy the kid but it was a half-breed Mexican with a beard. Zelina Maxwell said her her father and the coroner's jury along with Pat Garrett and his deputies all knew that it was not Billy the kid. She said the coroner's jury were all friends of Billy the kid and they told her later they said it was Billy the kid to both give him a chance to escape and to get the law off his back as they were great friends of his. Selena said she told the very unbreak Pat Garrett and deputies that it was Billy the kid for the same reason. She said I'm telling you because we all knew it was not Billy the kid we allowed our friend to escape and it worked. She claims also that he stopped off at the ranch multiple times after his supposed death. She said the deputies at first told Pat Garrett he had shot the wrong man as this man had a beard and Billy the kid was known to not be able to grow one in fact he could barely grow a mustache. Show Pat Garrett and his deputies also claimed it was Billy the kid but for a different reason to save Pat Garrett from The hangman's noose. And is everyone says it doesn't matter how far the camera was Pat Garrett would have made sure to stick Billy the kid on ice and get a picture of him as this would likely put him in the governor's mansion. He could feel the forward to take a picture as any other lawman would do because it was well known at least around that town that that in fact was not Billy the kid. This is the also the reason that Pat Garrett told the grave diggers under no circumstances are they to open the coffin. He did not have to bully the coroner's jury into saying it was Billy the kid as some people claim they were only quite willing to say it was Billy the kid to allow him the chance to escape. Same thing with zelina Maxwell. Years later even her father seemed to confirm the story when asked by a man if it was really Billy the kid Pete Maxwell is reported to have said not unless Billy magically grew a beard overnight and I turned Mexican. He is reported to have said that Pat Garrett said it was Billy the kid for two reasons first he was tired of chasing Billy the kid he wanted the reward for Billy the kid and he did not want to face a coroner after shooting a wrong man that was in fact unwanted. Back then even lonely and we're not above the ball unlocked today and they can put their own head in the noose for shooting an innocent man. Selena was the first person in the building and at first she was crying until she saw the man. Then she smiled as she formulated a plan right then to get Billy the kid both free of the law and presumed dead. The coroner's jury were also Mexican and they said it was Billy the kid for the same reason although not one of them believed it. The pinkertons who done the same thing for Butch Cassidy and Sundance kid they went to Bolivia heard about the supposed gunfight knew that there was no way that was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid and kept them on their wanted posters. They believe the same thing happened to Billy the kid and so they had a warrant for him as well and they kept him on the warrant. At first there is actually a paper on this the governor refused to pay the award because he said there was no evidence that Billy the kid was dead and in fact there was more evidence to suggest he was alive. After a while he did receive the reward in addition to about 10 times more money so you actually became wealthy for shooting an innocent man.to me it's it's amazing that people are so quick to claim Billy the kid back then and even today for the shooting of sheriff Brady when there was six other men with him also firing and no one knows who's bullet took down brady. It is more likely that Billy would have been shooting at Billy Matthews who survived the gunfight as he Billy was known to hate the man. Billy the kid's bullet or one of six other men took the life of sheriff Brady and his deputy. But I believe firmly and I'll never believe otherwise and no I'm not necessarily talking about brushy bill that Billy the kid survived and outfox them all. It will never be proven however the people that claim he is dead can't prove that he did die in 1881 either. If you had to win around Texas New Mexico or Arizona at that time you wouldn't have found a single man that actually believed that Pat Garrett had shot Billy the kid because even back then they were saying oh he would have definitely put him on ice and took a photograph. They make all sorts of lies about brushy Bill and he may be lying but he did speak Spanish fluently as did Billy the kid as he spoke to a woman in New Mexico in 1949 quite fluently. Also he was ambidextrous as Billy the kid was said to be and he could escape Cubs which only one in 100 million men are estimated to be able to do. There was hardly 100 million people in the entire world at that time so it's odd that you can see two different men in New Mexico that can escape Cuffs that's beyond astronomical. And there is much more evidence suggesting that Billy the kid survived a lot more than there is suggesting he was killed as even the governor at the time believed that Billy the kid escaped but he had Pat Garrett denying it for a very good reason due to his own safety and his desire to get the money I mean he was greedy wasn't he. He used the money to open a hotel as well as buy a home. Pretty good restitution for shooting a man that probably in all probability was not Billy the kid. Another side note Billy the kid's horse was gone and it was never seen again. The half-breeds horse was also in the corral and it was never ever claimed again. That's not an opinion that's a fact.

Like Ted Nugent says in his song "The Great White Buffalo", the Indians needed food and some skins for a roof, they only took what they needed, millions of buffalo were their proof, and then came the white dog with his thick and empty head, he couldn't see past his billfold, he wanted all the buffalo dead. No more words could have been more true, what big big shame! Luckily someone came in and saved the last small small herd, i believe those were the plains buffalo too, there was two different type of buffalo, the plains and the woodland buffalo, and one's horns were turned up while the others horns were turned down, or something like that. And the plains buffalo was the ones that numbered in the millions.

None of this is true! I know because my neighbors cat is Pat Garret reincarnated and from what I can decipher from his meows the Pat Garret story is way different

There is a distinction between Bison and buffalo. Do you know which it was?

But Jo-osh! Brushy Bill Roberts proved that Pat the rat did NOT shoot Billy the Kid!

Josh. You think Billy The Kid would stop rolling his R's when he felt like it, just because? Be You Man.

They grew up rich with 30 + slaves.

The catholic diocese of ny has Billy’s baptismal record

Yeah but not close friends? Oh really, ok.

Omg u sound like fuckn danny mcbride

I don't understand why you resort to such vulgarity on your programs. Did it ever occur to you there might be children listening to your channel?

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Garrity was more of a criminal then Billy the kid was

When you start using terms like "BFF" I tune out. I just stop the video. What are you going to tell me next that neither Billy not Garrett used Twitter? Stop it.

Billy was a murderer. Putting down a murderer is not snitching. Grow up.