On the Trail of The Kid and Pat Garrett Brainpower & Brownbags lecture series

The legendary Lincoln County War takes center stage as Mark Gardner speaks on "On the Trail of The Kid and Pat Garrett."

A professional historian, author, musician and consultant, Gardner has worked with the National Park Service, PBS Television, National Geographic Magazine, the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities, the New Mexico Humanities Council, and numerous state and local historic sites and museums. He writes for both popular and scholarly audiences, having published with several university presses and periodicals such as New Mexico Magazine, Journal of the West, and Living History Magazine.  He has written a number of interpretive booklets for National Park Service sites, including Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, and Santa Fe Trail National Historic Trail (click on Mark's Books for more). 

Gardner recently completed a book on Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett for William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West will go on sale February 9, 2010, wherever books are sold.

This event is free and open to the public. The lecture series is usually held at the Fray Angelico Chavez History Library, 120 Washington Ave.; for large crowds, the event will be moved next door to the John Gaw Meem Meeting Room.