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Author:

Hansen, Ron, 1947- author.

Title:

The Kid (Large Type) / Ron Hansen.

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publisher:

Thorndike Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

487 pages (large print) cm.

Subject:

Billy,--the Kid--Fiction.
Outlaws--Fiction.
Large type books.
FICTION / Historical.
Billy,--the Kid.
Large type books.
Outlaws.
Western stories.
Biographical fiction.
Fiction.

Summary:

"Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who, growing up in New York, Kansas, and later New Mexico, demonstrated a precocious dexterity at firing six-shooters with either hand a skill that both got him into and out of trouble and that turned him into an American legend of the old West. He was smart, well-spoken, attractive to both white and Mexican women, a good dancer, and a man with a nose for money, horses, and trouble. His spree of crimes and murders has been immortalized in dime westerns, novels, and movies. But the whole story of his short, epically violent life has never been told as it has been here. In The Kid, Ron Hansen showcases his masterful research and inimitable style as he breathes life into history, bringing readers back into the late 1800s and into Billy s boyhood as a ranch hand just trying to wrest a fortune from an unforgiving landscape. We are with Billy in every gunfight and horse theft and get to know him in full before his grand death in a hail of bullets in 1881 at the age of twenty-one. Original, powerful, and swiftly told, The Kid is an unforgettable read about a uniquely American anti-hero."--Amazon.com

Series:

Thorndike Press large print western

ISBN:

141049828X
9781410498281

OCLC:

(OCoLC)964504643

LCCN:

2016055504

Locations:

DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)

HLPC845 -- Alton Public Library (Alton)

VIPA334 -- Arlington Public Library (Arlington)

AJPE887 -- Matilda J. Gibson Memorial Library (Creston)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

NKPD993 -- Eagle Grove Memorial Library (Eagle Grove)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

REPC017 -- Greenfield Public Library (Greenfield)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

HIPC765 -- Pocahontas Public Library (Pocahontas)

SMPE094 -- Waverly Public Library (Waverly)