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Pat Garrett: Frontier Sheriff and Slayer of Billy the Kid

LEAD: Pat Garrett was a prominent figure in Southwest New Mexico, known as a frontier fighter and former sheriff of Lincoln County ^[1].

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Image 1 of The Roswell daily record (Roswell, N.M.), March 2, 1908 (1908) ↗ · details
11 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 …

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