Pat Garrett: the man who stopped Billy the Kid
Patrick Floyd Garrett was born June 5, 1850, in Chambers County, Alabama, and raised on a financially struggling plantation in Louisiana after the Civil War devastated his family’s wealth. In 1869, the 18‑year‑old Garrett ventured west, eventually working as a cowboy and buffalo hunter in Texas, earning a reputation for toughness and resourcefulness on the frontier.
