By Leon C. Metz
Within the heritage of the Southwest, Pat Garrett stood tall, either bodily and in legend. He was once greater than only a well-known western sheriff, greater than the slayer of the mythical Billy the child. whereas every so often his gun was once for lease, and whereas he was once occasionally identified to guard unique interests-particularly these of the livestock barons-more frequently than no longer Pat Garrett mixed in his six-foot five-inch body the nice, sincere, and honorable traits that went to make up the lawman of the previous West.Garrett is, in fact, immortal for his profitable efforts to finish the profession of the child, yet, because the writer amply demonstrates, Garrett's profession on no account ended on that scorching night in July, 1881, in fortress Sumner, New Mexico. inside of days Garrett had proven a name as an implacable foe of western criminals, a name that was once to persist with (and occasionally hang-out) him for the remainder of his existence. He used to be an enormous determine within the frontier politics of Texas and New Mexico, and he rubbed shoulders with the good and the close to nice of the region.Through the tale of Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett the landscape of the Southwest unfolds: its desires, its braveness, its explorations, its blunders, its violence, its conquests, and eventually its emergence as a settled society. No different personality in southwestern background is extra heavily pointed out with the land and the folk of America's final frontier.
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H. "Kid" Dobbs,24 testified that he had been a Texas Ranger under Garrett and that Pat's character had not been good. Charles B. Thompson,25 farmer and cattleman; J. S. , testimony in Roswell, N. , August 24, 1912. 22 Manuscript in possession of J. Evetts Haley, Canyon, Texas. 23 Testimony of J. W. , April 28, 1903, September 8, 1909, Willis Skelton Glenn v. C. , September 8, 1909. 25Ibid. 26Ibid. , Roswell, N. , August 24, 1912. Page 21 Pat Garrett as he appeared on the buffalo range in the 1870's.
Very early in life, even before he left Louisiana, he began to question established religion, a fact that his mother did not live to learn. She was born Elizabeth Ann Jarvis on September 28, 1829, in Georgia. Apparently she married John L. Garrett there and bore him eight children. 9 John Lumpkin Garrett's life is only slightly better known. Most of the details are folklore handed down from one generation to the next and not matters of public record. 10 Pat claimed that he was a colonel in the Confederate Army, but the Garrett descendants presently living in Louisiana dispute this claim.
Mex. 3 Eve Ball to author, May 18, 1967, June 1, 1967. Page 11 Pat Garrett's country Page 12 Garrett's version of events after leaving Louisiana (a version that makes no mention of the Garrity affair) is that he labored on a dirt farm in Dallas County, Texas. "I went into partnership with the owner," he said, "and my share was to grub the ground and clear the land. "4 One growing season convinced Garrett that farming held no future for him, and he switched from the cotton fields to cow ponies. A Dallas County rancher offered him a job, and the tall youth picked up his personal belongings, jumped into the buckboard, and bounced along to new opportunity.
