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Bookmark or Share- Pat Garrett Was the Last Great Frontier Lawman | HistoryNetPat Garrett, the Lincoln County Sheriff who shot Billy the Kid. Share This Article. Pat Garrett admitted dreading only one thing, and it had nothing to do with facing down a killer. Instead, it was facing a stranger who, on being introduced to the lawman, would exclaim: “Pat Garrett! The man who shot Billy the Kid, the noted desperado!
- Meet Pat Garrett, Billy The Kid's Friend, Killer, And BiographerGarrett made good in 1881, capturing Billy in a brief skirmish outside Stinking Spring, New Mexico. Before Billy could stand trial, he escaped. Pat Garrett hunted Billy the Kid down in July of the same year, working with Peter Maxwell, a host of Billy’s who betrayed him to the sheriff.
- How Billy the Kid Died, as Sheriff Pat Garrett Tells It - HistoryNetPat Garrett, the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, had been on the trail for months. In December 1880, he had brought in the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid on charges of murdering a former county sheriff.
- Billy the Kid is shot to death | July 14, 1881 | HISTORYSheriff Pat Garrett shoots Henry McCarty, popularly known as Billy the Kid, to death at the Maxwell Ranch in New Mexico. Garrett, who had been tracking the Kid for three months after the...
- Pat Garrett: The Truth About The Man Who Killed Billy The KidPat Garrett was a man of the times. Nine years older than Billy, he'd been a buffalo hunter, hired gun, and cowboy before he ran for sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, on a law-and-order platform. He was appointed deputy sheriff for the last two months of 1880 before taking office January 1, 1881.
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