SOURCE: "Anything for Billy: A Fiction Stranger than Truth," in Journal of American Culture, Vol. 14, No. 2, Summer, 1991, pp. 75-81.
In the following essay, Cox compares the historic record of Billy the Kid with McMurtry's depiction of him in Anything for Billy.
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