Pat Garrett | COMPILATION

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 188 minutes

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On the night of July 14th, 1881, Sheriff Pat Garrett killed Billy the Kid. In doing so, he helped create a legend and ensured that his legacy would forever be intertwined with the notorious outlaws. And let’s be honest – it isn’t that great of a legacy. Many consider Garrett a coward, at best, a no-good backstabbing Old West Judas who betrayed his friend for a handful of silver. Moreover, Pat is also labeled as a rank liar and an egomaniac. A glory seeker would turn on his mother if that meant earning a little dough and building up his reputation. And, over 26 years after he gunned down The Kid, Pat himself would be shot and killed under similar circumstances. A murder that to this day remains unsolved. Who killed Pat Garrett? How accurate is the narrative surrounding the former Sheriff of Lincoln County? Is all the hate deserved? And who was Garrett anyway? What was his life like before he met the Kid? And what became of Pat in the decades following that fateful night at Fort Sumner? This is a compilation of a previous series released on Garrett. Enjoy! Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Merchandise! https://www.teepublic.com/user/wild-west-extravaganza Book Recommendations! https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza/list/YEHGNY7KFAU7?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d Pat Garrett: The Story of a Western Lawman by Leon Metz - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0806118385?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzjoshta02-20&creativeASIN=0806118385&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.YEHGNY7KFAU7&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_asin To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner - https://www.amazon.com/dp/006136827X?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzjoshta02-20&creativeASIN=006136827X&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.YEHGNY7KFAU7&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_asin Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life by Robert Utley - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0803295588?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzjoshta02-20&creativeASIN=0803295588&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.YEHGNY7KFAU7&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_asin Were Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Friends? https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/p/were-pat-garrett-and-billy-the-kid The First Battle of Adobe Walls - https://www.wildwestextra.com/the-first-battle-of-adobe-walls/ Billy the Kid series part 1 - https://www.wildwestextra.com/billy-the-kid-orphan/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On the night of July 14, 1881, Sheriff Pat Garrett killed Billy the Kid.
0:05.2	In doing so, he not only helped create a legend, but also ensured that his legacy would be forever intertwined with that of the notorious outlaw.
0:13.1	And let's be honest, it ain't that great of a legacy.
0:16.8	Many consider Garrett to be a coward at best, a no-good backstabbing Old West Judas who betrayed his best friend for a handful of silver.
0:25.0	What's more, Pat is also labeled as a liar and an egomaniac, a glory seeker who would turn on his own mother if that meant earning a little dough and building his own reputation.
0:34.8	And over 26 years after he gunned down the kid, Pat himself would be shot
0:39.1	and killed under similar circumstances, a murder that to this day remains unsolved. Who killed
0:45.3	Pat Garrett? How accurate is the narrative surrounded the former sheriff of Lincoln County?
0:50.5	Is all of this hate deserved? And who the hell was Garrett anyway? What was his life like before
0:55.7	he met Billy the Kid? And what became a Pat in the decades following that fateful night at Fort Sumner?
1:01.7	You may think you know who Pat Garrett is, but I guarantee you've never heard his story told quite like this.
1:07.9	We're going to do quite a bit of fact-checking in this series and hopefully dispel a few
1:12.1	myths. We're also going to look into some new information showing that the infamous Billy of the
1:17.1	kid may have possibly not been of this world. Oh yeah, we go an intergalactic on this bad boy. My name's
1:24.6	Josh and you're listening to the Wild West Extravaganza.
1:29.3	Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett was born on June 5, 1850 in Chambers County, Alabama. It wouldn't stay there for long,
1:46.6	though, as his father, John Lumpkin Garrett, a farmer by trade, would move the family to Claiborne Parish,
1:52.5	Louisiana in 1853. John purchased a large plantation just outside the town of Antioch, and it's there
1:59.0	that Pat would do most of his growing up.
2:01.1	And boy, oh boy, did he grow. In a day and age where the average American male was just
2:06.2	five foot five inches tall, Garrett dwarfed his peers at a whopping six foot four inches.
2:11.6	At least he did by the time he reached early adulthood. A future business partner would
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