To Hell on a Fast Horse
Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · February 9, 2010
“So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. ” —Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers No outlaw typifies America’s mythic Wild West more than Billy the Kid.
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- Who it’s for
- A richly detailed true tale of the Wild West, told with the momentum of a chase.
- Themes
- Old West history, Lawman pursuing an outlaw, Billy the Kid
- Pacing
- Fast
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“So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. ” —Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers No outlaw typifies America’s mythic Wild West more than Billy the Kid. To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner is the riveting true tale of Sheriff Pat Garrett’s thrilling, break-neck chase in pursuit of the notorious bandit.
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David Dary calls To Hell on a Fast Horse, “A masterpiece,” and Robert M. Utley calls it, “Superb narrative history.” This is spellbinding historical adventure at its very best, recalling James Swanson’s New York Times bestseller Manhunt—about the search for Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth—as it fills in with fascinating detail the story director Sam Peckinpah brought to the screen in his classic film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
The Long Pursuit
A richly detailed true tale of the Wild West, told with the momentum of a chase.
Come here for
- Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett, beyond the familiar legend
- Old West history with the pull of an adventure
Expect
- A sustained narrative centered on Garrett’s pursuit
- Vivid historical detail, without losing the chase
Where it sits
| Criminals & Outlaws | 60% |
|---|---|
| 19th-Century America | 37% |
| Southwest U.S. History | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Lives in History
- Political Lives
- Criminals & Outlaws
- Personal Memoirs
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- 19th-Century America
- 21st-Century America
- Midwest History
- Southwest U.S. History
- Authors
- Mark Lee Gardner
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- February 9, 2010
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Old West history · Lawman pursuing an outlaw · Billy the Kid
- Reading lane
- Lives in History