Here is the most detailed and most engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two-year facedown and shootout in Lincoln. Until now, New Mexico's late nineteenth-century Lincoln County War has served primarily as the backdrop for a succession of mythical renderings of Billy the Kid in American popular culture. Here is the most detailed and most engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two-year facedown and shootout in Lincoln. Until now, New Mexico's late nineteenth-century Lincoln County War has served primarily as the backdrop for a succession of mythical renderings of Billy the Kid in American popular culture. In research, writing, and interpretation, High Noon in Lincoln is a superb book. 

"It is one of the best books (maybe the best) ever written on a violent episode in the West"; Richard Maxwell Brown author of "Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of America Violence and Vigilantism".   

"A masterful account of the actual facts of the gory Lincoln County War and the role of Billy the Kid. . . . Utley separates the truth from legend without detracting from the gripping suspense and human interest of the story."  Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. 

I am a new seller on eBay.  I am not a dealer.   I have been a private collector of Civil War  and Western Americana books and ephemera for about 30 years.   I have recently decided to reduce the size of my library.   I will be posting many, many books in the coming months.  Many of the items are very scarce.


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