Curated OER
Tracking Down the Real Billy the Kid
Students analyze the role that gunfighters played in the settlement of the West and distinguish between their factual and fictional accounts. Using internet research, students explore the life of Billy the Kid. They write an essay on...
Curated OER
Gunfighters of the Old West
Students identify, through specific character traits, several of the major gunfighters of the Old West. They create a new composite character from preexisting and famous persons and their own imagination.
Library of Congress
Loc: Billy the Kid: Perspectives on an Outlaw
This instructional activity relates to the westward movement in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Students analyze the role that gunfighters played in the settlement of the West and distinguish...
Ibis Communications
Eye Witness to History: The Death of Billy the Kid, 1881
An eyewitness account from Pat Garrett that explains the circumstances surrounding his killing of Billy the Kid.