To Hell on a Quick Horse: Billy the Child, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice within the Outdated West

“So richly detailed, you’ll be able to nearly scent the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. ”
 —Hampton Sides, New York Instances bestselling writer of Ghost Troopers

No outlaw typifies America’s mythic Wild West greater than Billy the Child. To Hell on a Quick Horse by Mark Lee Gardner is the riveting true story of Sheriff Pat Garrett’s thrilling, break-neck chase in pursuit of the infamous bandit. David Dary calls To Hell on a Quick Horse, “A masterpiece,” and Robert M. Utley calls it, “Very good narrative historical past.” That is spellbinding historic journey at its perfect, recalling James Swanson’s New York Instances bestseller Manhunt—in regards to the seek for Lincoln’s murderer, John Wilkes Sales space—because it fills in with fascinating element the story director Sam Peckinpah dropped at the display screen in his basic movie Pat Garrett and Billy the Child.