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Billy The Kid Country

October 2024
1min read


The New Mexico tourist council would like you to be aware of the state’s rich Spanish heritage, and its role as a center of the arts, and so forth—but there’s no getting away from the tremendous bucktoothed specter of the world’s most famous outlaw. Robert M. Utley, author of a highly praised biography of the Kid, follows his trail from Santa Fe to Silver City.

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