I found this book to be a bit disappointing. There is just not much confirmed information about the Kid. Too much about the book was speculation and other people.
This is a historical account of who Billy the Kid really was. There is little known about his actual birth, but they talk a lot about stuff like that in this story. If you like history about the wild west, you'll enjoy this.
I bought this audio CD because I relly enjoyed "The Real Wild West" by the same author. The book was mostly a cut-and-paste job of quotes from other better informed sources - larded with lots of liberal editorializing. The content was not helped at all by the reader who did the audio CD. I doubt seriously if Mr McLaren has ever been west of New Jersey if his hilarious mispronunciations for Indian tribe's names and Western place names is any indication. He also had the annoying habit of trying to use a different voice for each quotation he read, and since the book had more than the usual number of quotes, it was pathetic. The author tries hard to convince us that Billy the Kid was just a misunderstood product of his environment, although he is compelled by facts to admit that he was a rustler, horse thief, and murderer.
