The Dandy Sheriff Of Dona Ana
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Episode 355 takes us back to the Old West with a profile of one of the classic rivalries of the era: The lanky Sheriff Pat Garrett v. the notorious William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, including a narrative of their fateful last encounter as told by the sheriff himself.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.7 | December 3, 1880. |
| 0:12.6 | There is a duty which the people of San Miguel County should immediately discharge |
| 0:17.5 | and the ousting of a powerful gang of outlaws who are continually |
| 0:22.2 | harassing the stockmen in the Pekos and Panhandle country and terrorizing the |
| 0:27.4 | people of Fort Sumner in vicinity. Between 30 and 40 miles from Sumner is a |
| 0:34.3 | place called the Portalus, a lake on the edge of the staked plains, the shore of which is fringed |
| 0:41.1 | with rocks and is by nature and situation one of the wildest places in the country. When the storms come, |
| 0:49.9 | the herds are driven there for shelter, and no matter from what direction the storm blows, |
| 0:56.0 | it is sure to carry with it a rich bovine tide. |
| 1:00.6 | Taking advantage of this, a gang of outlaws have made it their rendezvous, and building dugouts |
| 1:06.2 | have made for themselves a little camp, which, with the natural advantages of the locality, they consider |
| 1:12.9 | well-nigh impregnable. The gang includes from 40 to 50 men, all hard characters, the off-scouring |
| 1:22.3 | of society, fugitives from justice, and desperadoes by profession. |
| 1:28.3 | Among them are men with whose names and deeds the people are perfectly familiar, |
| 1:33.3 | such as Billy the Kid, Dave Rutterbaugh, Charles Boudre, and others of equally unsavory reputation. |
| 1:43.3 | The band is well armed and have plenty of ammunition, |
| 1:48.0 | and as they have no hankering to be pulled in, are very determined. |
| 1:54.0 | One circumstance, however, has made them very incautious, |
| 1:58.0 | which inspires the hope that if a well-organized raid is made on them, |
| 2:03.6 | they may yet be brought to justice. The bivouac of the desperadoes is what may be termed |
| 2:10.0 | disputed territory, lying on or near the boundaries of Valencia, Lincoln, and San Miguel counties. It is yet held by many that it is |
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