07/25/2021 1:47 PM
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Updated 07/25/2021 1:47 PM
The pistol with which Sheriff
Pat Garrett killed the young gunman Billy the Kid in New Mexico
in 1881 will be auctioned on August 27 and is expected to fetch
between 2 and 3 million dollars
, he reported on his website. the
Bonhams
auction
house.
The pistol,
a 7 1/2 caliber Colt
made in 1880 and considered by Bonhams an "iconic piece of early Western history," belonged to Garrett, the man of law and order who, after a long persecution, tracked down and located Billy the Kid on a ranch in Fort Summer (New Mexico) and
shot him dead.
The Colt 7 1/2 caliber pistol and the photo of Billy the Kid (EFE).
It is the "most important and desired Western firearm known, as well as one of the best documented, and has
never appeared at public auction before,
" the company notes.
Billy the kid, a legend killed at 21
The legendary Billy the Kid, who
died at age 21
, was wanted in Arizona and New Mexico for the deaths of
eight men
in that violent 19th-century West.
Billy the Kid photo from 1880 (AP).
The pistol, in very good condition
, comes from the private collection of a Texas couple, Jim and Theresa Earle, who accumulated firearms and other artifacts for nearly half a century and whose family has now decided to auction it off.
Other valuable items up for auction are
a double-barreled shotgun
that Billy the Kid used when he escaped from a court in New Mexico and the contract that Sheriff Garrett signed for the book he wrote about the gunman, one of the most legendary characters. cinematic has generated.
Photo of Sheriff Pat Garrett and his wife (AP).
"Now part of American mythology, Garrett's friendship with the Kid, their mutual respect, and their subsequent hunt, capture, escape, and death
have become legend,
"
Bonhams
notes
.
The Billy the Kid story has been the source of pop culture, music and literature for more than a century, with such iconic films as Sam Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (1973) and "Young Guns. "(1988), by Geoff Murphy and Christopher Cain.
EFE Agency.
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