Pat Garrett | The End of the Kid (Part 3)

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

History, Education

4.8 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Pat Garrett, along with deputies John W. Poe and Kip McKinney, make one final push into Fort Sumner in search of Billy the Kid. In doing so, they immortalize themselves. Also discussed in this episode is whether or not Pat Garrett was a coward. Was Billy the Kid armed when he met his end? How do we know for sure that Billy was indeed killed that night at Fort Sumner? Why wasn’t a photograph taken of the Kid’s body and why was he so quickly buried? This is part 3 in the series on Pat Garrett. Link to previous installments 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’s Trigger Finger - https://www.wildwestextra.com/billy-the-kids-trigger-finger/ 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	On the night of July 14, 1881, Sheriff Pat Garrett put an end to Billy the kid. Or did he?
0:37.1	We're told that Billy entered into a darkened
0:39.2	room, a pistol in one hand and a knife in the other, prompting Pat to open up fire. But is that what
0:45.1	really happened? How do we know that the kid was indeed armed? And for that matter, how can we be sure
0:51.0	that Garrett really killed him? Why were there no photos taken of Billy after the fact?
0:56.0	Why was there such a rush to get his body stuck in the dirt?
0:59.0	And did Pat Garrett ever even received that bounty that had been placed on the kid's head?
1:04.0	Ah yeah, we're gonna bust a few long-held misconceptions on this one.
1:08.0	Gonna take a look at how well some of these rumors hold up to the actual evidence.
1:12.6	And hopefully have some fun while doing so. My name's Josh and you're listening to the Wild West
1:19.6	extravaganza. Now the kid escaped jail back in late April, and Pat didn't make a move until late June or early July, when he got definite word of Billy's whereabouts.
1:39.2	His first tip off was a letter from an unidentified businessman there at Fort Sumner, saying that Billy had been
1:44.5	sniffing around, and he got a second letter stating pretty much the same thing from Manuel
1:49.0	Brazil. And then here comes John W. Poe with the same story. Poe, by the way, was Frank Stewart's
1:54.7	replacement, working with him Texas Panhandle ranchers. Just like Garrett, Poe had spent time hunting
2:00.1	Buffalo and had already done a
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