Edward Newton's _The Amenities of Book-Collecting_.
See "Fighting Texians," "Texas Rangers," "Range Life," "Cowboy
Songs and Other Ballads."
AIKMAN, DUNCAN. _Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats_, 1927.
OP. Patronizing in the H. L. Mencken style.
BILLY THE KID. We ve got to take him seriously, not so much
for what he was--
There are twenty-one men I have put bullets through,
And Sheriff Pat Garrett must make twenty-two--
as for his provocations. Popular imagination, represented by
writers of all degrees, goes on playing on him with cumulative
effect. As a figure in literature the Kid has come to lead the
whole field of western bad men. The _Saturday Review_, for
October 11, 1952, features a philosophical essay entitled
"Billy the Kid: Faust in America--The Making of a Legend." The
growth of this legend is minutely traced through a period
of seventy-one years (1881-1952) by J. C. Dykes in _Billy the
Kid: The Bibliography of a Legend_, University of New Mexico
Press, Albuquerque, 1952 (186 pages). It lists 437 titles,
including magazine pieces, mimeographed plays, motion
pictures, verses, pamphlets, fiction.
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