{"product_id":"billy-the-kids-writings-words-and-wit-hardcover","title":"Billy the Kid's Writings, Words, and Wit - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGale Cooper\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is a new edition. \u003c\/strong\u003eThis second edition of \u003cem\u003eBilly the Kid's Writings, Words, and Wit\u003c\/em\u003e is the definitive study of the written and recorded words of Old West icon, William H. Bonney aka Billy the Kid. In hardback and paperback, it is 592 pages. All his known communications are presented in full: deposition, court transcript, bill of sale, letters, newspaper interviews, and quotes from contemporaries' memoirs. For the first time all his letters in original handwriting are reproduced together. Included is a new Billy the Kid letter to Governor Lew Wallace, authenticated by the author. As revisionist history, the text analyzes everything from his penmanship to his brilliance, and places his words in the context of his times: portraying him as a freedom fighter in the lost multi-cultural Lincoln County War against the land-grabbing political cabal of the Santa Fe Ring. Implications of Billy the Kid's writings are brought to the present day by discussion of the modern Santa Fe Ring and its 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e century attempt to hijack his by an historical hoax.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author, Gale Cooper, a Harvard Medical School educated M.D. forensic psychiatrist, has published multiple books on Billy the Kid, and is his foremost revisionist historian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 592\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 09, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47417413304498,"sku":"9781949626049","price":49.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/0253690bc78689acd1224a441255374b.webp?v=1778428910","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/billy-the-kids-writings-words-and-wit-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}