Download or read book The Lost Pardon of Billy the Kid written by Gale Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author, Gale Cooper's, The Lost Pardon of Billy the Kid: An Analysis Factoring in the Santa Fe Ring, Governor Lew Wallace's Dilemma, and a Territory in Rebellion, in hardcover and paperback, 996 pages, using newly discovered primary documents, examines Billy the Kid's pardon request for his Lincoln County War indictments in the context of New Mexico Territory's revolts in the 1870's against expanding domination of the corrupt Santa Fe Ring, and Governor Lew Wallace's dilemma that pardoning Billy would result in Ring revenge destroying his political future. The outcome was the outlaw myth of "Billy the Kid," created by the Ring and Wallace to hide the Ring's crimes of land-grabs, malicious prosecutions, and assassinations. This is Billy the Kid history with a new and exciting revisionist perspective.