Pat Garrett | Pat vs Billy the Kid (Part 2)

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

History, Education

4.8 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Pat Garrett is now the Sheriff of Lincoln County and he’s got one job – to put an end to his old friend, Billy the Kid. And you better believe he wastes no time in starting on the hunt. Aiding him in these efforts are Secret Service Agent Azariah Wild and Texas cattleman investigator Frank Stewart. Also discussed in this episode: Barney Mason, the raid on Fort Sumner, Pat Garrett’s confrontation with two Puerto de Luna badmen, his refusal to be arrested, the standoff with an armed mob in Las Vegas, Bob Olinger’s likely affliction, Billy’s escape from the jail in Lincoln, Sheriff Garrett’s immediate reaction, the Kid’s reasons for sticking around Fort Sumner, and more! This is the 2nd installment in a series on the life of Pat Garrett. Link to the previous episode below. Pat Garrett | Origin Story (part 1) - https://www.wildwestextra.com/pat-garrett-origin-story-part-1/ 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/ Join Into History for ad-free and bonus content! https://intohistory.supercast.com/ Looking for the Billy the Kid series? Start here: https://www.wildwestextra.com/billy-the-kid-orphan/ Billy the Kid | Quien Es? (Part 5) - https://www.wildwestextra.com/billy-the-kid-quien-es/ 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 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	There's a scene in the movie Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid where Pat, before officially becoming
0:34.7	sheriff, pays Billy a visit at Fort Sumner.
0:42.4	The two sit down in the canteenas Garrett attempts to talk the kid and to leave in the territory.
0:47.4	You know how the conversation goes. Pat tells the kid that the electorate wants him gone,
0:51.8	prompt him Bonnie to reply, well, are they telling me or are they asking me?
0:56.7	To which Pat says, I'm asking you. Ah, such a great movie garrett gives the kids something like five days to clear out and their exchange ends with the two bidding each other
1:01.3	adios along with billy warning pat not to press his luck how accurate was this meeting did garrett really
1:08.5	give billy a chance to scan out according According to John P. Meadows, yes,
1:12.5	he did. Now Meadows knew both Garrett and the kid, and when Billy busted out of that jail in Lincoln,
1:18.5	he laid low at Meadows place for at least one night while on his way back to Fort Sumner. John
1:23.6	lived all the way till 1936, gave Minnie an interview later in life, and he helped to write a book
1:29.1	titled, Billy the kid as I knew him. And according to Meadows, quote, Garrett himself told me time and time
1:35.3	again that when he was elected sheriff of Lincoln County, his first object was to put an end to the
1:40.6	kid's continued defiance of the law without any bloodshed.
1:44.9	He said, I had figured out just how to do it.
1:47.8	Before I was elected sheriff, I saw the kid and talked it over with him.
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