The gun used to kill the notorious Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid 140 years ago is going to public auction for the first time -- with an estimated selling price of $2-3 million.
The Colt Single Action firearm belonged to Sheriff Pat Garrett, who shot and killed Billy the Kid at a ranch in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, on July 14, 1881.Auction house Bonhams, which is selling the gun on August 27 in Los Angeles, described it as a"relic of one of the most important and well known stories of the Wild West."Billy the Kid, born Henry McCarty and also known as William Bonney, was one of the most wanted criminals of American Old West -- and killed at least eight people.
The book, said Bonhams, is one of the rarest in the canon and the"foundation of the Billy the Kid legend."Billy the Kid and Garrett shared a"mutual respect," and Kid's"hunt, capture, escape and death have become the stuff of legend," the auction house said.Pat Garrett's contract for his book on Billy the Kid will also be auctioned.
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