The Saga Of Billy The Kid

WALTER NOBLE BURNS

Publication: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926, Garden City

First Edition. Green Cloth. 322pp. A minor early classic, and a perpetuator of the legends of Billy The Kid. In SixGuns 337, Ramon Adams is quite critical: "Burns was honest enough to call his work a 'saga,' and I doubt that he expected his readers to take it as history; otherwise he would not have included such a quantity of imaginary dialogue. He gives few dates and cites no sources, and although the book is highly entertaining, it reads more like folklore than biography...Most of the incidents he writes about the Kid are incorrect, and he perpetuates the fable about Mrs. McSween playing her piano while her home burned."--SixGuns 337. A fine, bright copy. Price-clipped dust jacket has some clear tape reinforcement at spine ends and corners, else an attractive, bright copy with some light rubbing. Lengthy promotional review laid-in.