Pat Garrett

Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (June 5, 1850 Chambers County, Alabama - February 28, 1908) was a bartender and later a sheriff, generally believed to have tracked down and killed Billy the Kid. He is sometimes referred to as, "The Man Who Shot Billy the Kid."

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Though Garrett was born in Alabama, he grew up on a prosperous Louisiana plantation in Claiborne Parish. He left home in 1869 and wound up finding work as a cowboy in Dallas County, Texas. In 1875 he left to hunt buffalo. In 1878 Garrett shot and killed a fellow hunter who'd allegedly drawn a gun on him in a disagreement over buffalo hides. He left for New Mexico and briefly found work as a cowpuncher before quitting to open his own saloon. The tall man was colorfully referred to by locals as "Juan Largo" or "Big John."

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