"Life of Pat F. Garrett and the Taming of the Border Outlaw" is the firs hand account of Pat Garrett's life. Written in 1908, the year Garett was murdered, this book is an excellent source of information about one of Wild West's greatest sheriffs.

John Milton Scanland (1843-1935) was an American journalist, writer and editor. He was an editor of the Natchitoches Spectator, a Democratic newspaper. In 1908, in El Paso, Texas Scanland published a biography of Pat Garrett, the New Mexican sheriff who killed Billy the Kid.