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Wanted: The Outlaw Lives of Billy the Kid & Ned Kelly . Lamar Series in Western History. By Robert M. Utley. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. ix + 223 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical essay, index. $30.00.) The latest biography by renowned western historian Robert M. Utley is actually two for the price of one. In this one volume he describes the lives of two of the best-known folk heroes in the English-speaking world: New Mexico’s Billy the Kid and New South Wales’s Ned Kelly. In the first half of the book, Utley succinctly summarizes the sequence of events that launched one of America’s most popular outlaws into legend. He follows that with … montdawn{at}msn.com

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