RON HANSEN at Books Inc. Santa Clara

RON HANSEN at Books Inc. Santa Clara

National Book Award finalist Ron Hansen shares his new work of historical fiction, The Kid. Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who, growing up in New York, Kansas, and later New Mexico, demonstrated a precocious dexterity at firing six-shooters with either hand a skill that both got him into and out of trouble and that turned him into an American legend of the old West. He was smart, well-spoken, attractive to both white and Mexican women, a good dancer, and a man with a nose for money, horses, and trouble. His spree of crimes and murders has been immortalized in dime westerns, novels, and movies. But the whole story of his short, epically violent life has never been told as it has been here. 

Event date: 
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 7:00pm
Event address: 
Books Inc.
2712 Augustine Drive
Santa Clara, CA
Books: 
The Kid: A Novel By Ron Hansen Cover Image
$26.00
Unavailable, Out of Stock, or Out of Print
ISBN: 9781501129759
Published: Scribner - October 4th, 2016