Patrick Floyd Garrett - From Buffalo Hunter to Man Hunter

Although best remembered as the sheriff who shot the Southwest's most infamous outlaw, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett left an enduring legacy in New Mexico and West Texas history. Irrigation planner for the Pecos Valley, U.S. Customs Collector in El Paso, dogged pursuer of the killers of Albert Jennings Fountain and his young son, and victim of a mysterious killing near Las Cruces, Garrett remains a colorful yet enigmatic character of New Mexico's past.


Ron Grimes has spent most of his life performing at Chautauquas, conventions, Western stage shows, schools, dude ranches and "cowboy campfires" throughout the Southwest. He has also portrayed Texas gunman John Wesley Hardin and Jim White, discoverer of the Carlsbad Caverns.




(source: Catalog of speakers and chautauqua programs 2003-2005, New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities)

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