{"product_id":"cracking-the-billy-the-kid-imposter-hoax-of-brushy-bill-roberts-9781949626100","title":"Cracking the Billy the Kid Imposter Hoax of Brushy Bill Roberts","description":"\u003cp\u003eGale Cooper's huge Cracking the Billy the Kid Imposter Hoax of Brushy Bill Roberts, in hardcover and paperback, definitively demolishes that 70 year hoax.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce \"Brushy Bill\" Roberts had united with his hoaxing authors,\" William V. Morrison, and C.L. Sonnichsen, they created one of the world's most elaborate, most labor intensive, most destructive, and most enduring historical hoaxes: the \"Brushy Bill\" Roberts Billy the Kid impersonation. Its corollary of \"Brushy's\" surviving the Kid's famous shooting death in New Mexico Territory's Fort Sumner on July 14, 1881, was defamation of famous lawman, Pat Garrett, as a liar who hid killing an innocent victim, not Billy, on that night. And when that hoax's creators died, more profiteers took their place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts cast of madmen, charlatans, hucksters, forgers, windbags, and wannabes, make a pathetic and unsavory lot; whose eventual championing by a corrupt, self-promoting, 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e century, New Mexico governor gave them access to the world stage. All insulted legitimate historical investigation. That makes this book debunking them a study of lying - from delusional to malicious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore profoundly, this book is a testament to the real history unknown to \"Brushy Bill\" and his promoters: a magnificent, Territory-wide, freedom fight against New Mexico Territory's deadly land-grabbing Santa Fe Ring political cabal, that culminated in the Lincoln County War Battle, which made a grass-roots hero of teenaged, charismatic, bi-cultural zealot, Billy Bonney; and marked him for killing as his Ring enemies' mythologized outlaw: Billy the Kid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-70286\"\u003eGale Cooper\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gelcour Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 2.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949626100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1949626105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO006000\"\u003eHistorical\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS036040\"\u003eUnited States | 19th Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-TRU\"\u003eTrue Crime\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-TRU000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gelcour Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44087026057391,"sku":"1949626105","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9255\/8767\/files\/img_5bfae0f2-8c56-44ad-8de2-e2df534b2ef5.jpg?v=1719831782","url":"https:\/\/www.correctionsbookstore.com\/es\/products\/cracking-the-billy-the-kid-imposter-hoax-of-brushy-bill-roberts-9781949626100","provider":"Corrections Bookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}