The Old West’s deadliest gunslinger didn’t look like a movie star. He was a soft-spoken, church-going man who dressed like a traveling preacher, kept his long black coat buttoned even in the Texas…
On a quiet road outside Las Cruces, New Mexico, in February 1908, Pat Garrett stepped down from his buggy. Garrett was the most famous lawman the West had ever produced, the man who had tracked down Billy the Kid decades earlier. He never saw the rifleman hidden in the brush. The shot came from a … Read more