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My husband and I have raised goats, including fainting goats for over thirty-five years. We reside in Belfast, TN, which is located in Marshall County, where the fainting goat breed originated. They are truly a unique and special breed of goats.
You can't help but love them! Over the years I developed a yearning to write a children's book about our goats, but the inspiration didn't come for a long, long time.
Then it came so quickly, I could...
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When Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett ended Billy the Kid's life on the night of July 14, 1881, with a shot in the dark, he was catapulted at once into stardom in the annals of Western history. The killing occurred at old Fort Sumner, New Mexico on the Pecos River. Garrett by pure chance had encountered the Kid in a darkened room of the Pete Maxwell house. As the unsuspecting Billy entered, he was cut down without warning. But the Kid had his share...
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Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with...
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In this bonus book in the Desert Legends Trilogy, Jim Doolen has his final encounter with the infamous Billy the Kid. Billy the Kid and many other figures from the wild west are featured in Written in Blood, Ghost Moon, and Victorio's War of the Desert Legends Trilogy. Set in the harsh desert world of the Arizona Territory and northern Mexico, these stories are sure to thrill readers.
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Oscilloscope Laboratories
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2021.
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A provocative coming-of-age story, Jennifer Venditti's debut film, BILLY THE KID (2007), is an acclaimed odyssey into the soul of an American teenager. Venditti follows Billy as he navigates small town Maine, grappling with isolation and first-time love, and traversing the frustrating gap between imagination and reality. Exhilarating and heartfelt, the film grants an intimate, empathetic view of an expressive and seemingly fearless outsider and provides...
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National Geographic
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[2016]
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It investigates the origins and authenticity of a tintype discovered in 2010 that appears to feature an image of the legendary outlaw. If authenticated, the photograph could set a new record for the sale of an extremely rare and highly-prized collectible. Using modern methods and time period recreations, this special pieces together a mystery more than 130 years in the making, the story of one of the first media bad-boys who was once the most hunted...
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In a Western American town, Fuzzy, tired of running from the law, decides to settle down. However, when he realizes the town is under the control of a corrupt individual, he calls in his outlaw friends to help restore order and justice.
1941 United States Western film. Set against the backdrop of the Wild West, the film delves into the life of an outlaw-turned-homesteader and his quest for justice in a town riddled with corruption.
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Things look bad for Billy the Kid and his pals Fuzzy and Jeff. They're about to be executed for crimes they didn't commit, but they manage to escape, only to discover a group of impostors is perpetrating those misdeeds and pinning them on the heroes. Determined to clear their names and stop the madness, Billy and friends align with Sheriff John Masters to stop the conniving Boss Stanton, who's running the whole operation.
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Penguin Workshop
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2023.
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From the legendary Dolly Parton comes a story about her god-dog and Instagram personality, Billy the Kid, who is hoping to make it big as a country music star in Nashville, Tennessee. French bulldog Billy the Kid was born with an ear for music. And not just any music. He loves barking to the beat of country music! So Billy sets out to Nashville to sing his heart out. But when he meets some big bullies at the Battle of the Bow-wows, Billy worries he's...
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W.W. Norton & Co
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c2007
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Historian Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and yet remains an enigma to this day. With the Gilded Age in full swing and the Industrial Revolution reshaping the American landscape, "the Kid," who was gunned down by Sheriff Pat Garrett in the New Mexico Territory at the age of 21, became a new breed of celebrity outlaw....
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A Colorado dentist claims to be the infamous gunman while mentoring a boy, romancing a widow, and protecting his friend from angry bootleggers.
Pueblo, Colorado,1932. Bootleggers thrive in a town where the sheriff is on the take and you can kill a man with impunity. In this thrilling narrative, a once-famous outlaw finds himself thrust into the middle of a bootleg war against his will. At stake is nothing less than the life of his best friend...
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History tells us that the short and violent life of William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, ended at the hand of Pat Garrett on the moonless night of July 14, 1881. But I Am Billy the Kid tells a different story, straight from Billy himself. This revisionist history seen through the lens of a twenty-first century sensibility features the picaresque hero we thought we knew and the unexpected one that we don't: a fearless and determined young...
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William H. "Billy the Kid" Bonney Jr. isn't afraid to take risks. But during a train heist near his hometown, the odds catch up with him when a passenger recognizes the nineteen-year-old outlaw. Fed up with Billy's bad ways, The Law sends its best man to bring him in: Sheriff Willis Monroe, Billy's own cousin and former best friend. But Willis isn't the only one on Billy's tail. The Kid's two-timing partners are hunting him, too--and a conniving posse...
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The true life of the most daring young outlaw of the age. He was the leading spirit in the bloody Lincoln County, New Mexico, war. By the age of twenty-one he had killed twenty-one men. His six years of daring outlawry has never been equalled in the annals of criminal history. (Goodreads)
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Kino Lorber
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1966.
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Billy the Kid has given up his lawless life and plans to marry Betty. They are paid a visit by Betty's uncle, Underhill, who - totally unbeknown to them - is the vampire Dracula. Shortly after his arrival, a local girl is murdered and seeing blood on Underhill's shirt, Billy becomes suspicious. Ignoring Billy's warnings, Betty takes her uncle to a disused mine where Underhill tries to put her in a trance. But the spell is broken by Billy's sudden...
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The world's most diabolical killer! The world's deadliest gunfighter! Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance, the outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her. A great Cheezy Flick-and one we are sure you will love as much as we did!
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Billy the Kid and his friends come to the aid of ranchers victimized by a crooked land dealer.
1940 American Action Adventure Western Film directed by Sam Newfield for Producers Releasing Corporation, and 3rd in PRC's Billy the Kid series.
Billy the Kid and his friend Jeff are ambushed in a cabin by bounty hunters. They escape, but Jeff is wounded, so they decide to hide out at Jeff's uncle's ranch in Little Bend Valley.
He will soon find out that...
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