The Untimely Demise of a Frontier Legend: Pat Garrett Falls to a Ranchman's Bullet
LEAD: Pat Garrett, a figure etched into the very fabric of New Mexico's frontier days, and famed as the slayer of the boy outlaw Billy the Kid, met a sudden and violent end in a gunfight near Las Cruces in late February 1908 [1][chunk:1232
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- Image 1 of The Roswell daily record (Roswell, N.M.), March 2, 1908 (1908) ↗ · details11 MSWELL VOLUME 6 ROSWELL NEW MEXICO MONDAY EVENING MARCH 2 18 NUMBER 1 EMM 1 4 i V ll I 2 5 PAT GARRETT IS KILLED SHOT TO DEATH BY HIS TENANT WAYNE BRAZELE AFTER QUARREL ON HIGHWAY WAS A ROSWELl PIONEER Settled and Improved Eight Hundred …