The Washington Post, October 9th, 1988
ANYTHING FOR BILLY By Larry McMurtry Simon and Schuster. 382 pp. $18.95 THE BILLY of the title is Billy the Kid, but he is not exactly the callow, scrawny, peculiarly charming cowboy born Henry McCarty in New York City in 1859. He is not the rustler and gunslinger who, at age 21, smugly bragged that he'd killed a man "for every year of my life." He is especially not the outlaw who used to buy whiskey from a saloonkeeper named Pat Garrett and then, asking "Quien es?", was gunned down in a dark bedroom by the newly-elected sheriff on July 14, 1881. The Billy the Kid of Larry McMurtry's fierce an...
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