Recommended Reading for Billy the Kid
and the Lincoln County War

Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life, by Robert Utley
The West of Billy the Kid, by Frederick Dolan
Such Men as Billy the Kid: The Lincoln County War Reconsidered, by Joel Jacobsen
Inventing Billy the Kid, by Stephen Tatum
High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier, by Robert Utley
The Life and Death of John Henry Tunstall, by Frederick Nolan
The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, by Pat Garrett
To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett,
by Mark Lee Gardner
The Billy the Kid Reader, by Frederick Nolan
Pat Garrett, the Story of a Western Lawman, by Leon C. Metz
Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride, by Michael Wallis