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Las Cruces, New Mexico: Bronson Printing Company, 1930., 1930. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Original gray printed wrappers, 128 pp., preface, small map on title page, index. Dykes Billy the Kid 153 says, "Scarce." "There is a section on 'Billy the Kid' in this local history. The Kid is credited with killing twenty-seven men, his first a miner who ran off with the Kid's fifteen-year-old sister..... A copy of the court document sentencing Billy the Kid to the gallows is included." Herd 934 says, "Rare." Six Guns 876 says, "Rare." "A local history containing some information on Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett." Ramon Adams also comments on a number of errors during the Kid's outlaw days. Griggs, in addition to the Billy the Kid information, provides much insight of the Mesilla Valley beginning with pre-historic days, the Spanish occupation, Indian problems, the Mexican American War, the Gadsden Purchase, the Civil War in the… Read More