West’s most famous gun up for auction: Sheriff Garrett used it to kill Billy the Kid

NEW YORK – The Wild West’s most famous pistol will soon have a new owner. On August 27, in fact, in Los Angeles the auction house specialized in antiques Bonhams, will beat the legendary weapon used by the sheriff Pat Garrett to kill the bandit Billy the Kid. One of the most famous stories of the American frontier, then definitively transformed into a legend by the famous film by Sam Peckinpah dated 1973, with James Coburn as the sheriff and Kris Kristoferson as the Kid (and with Bob Dylan singing the unforgettable Knocking on Haeven’s Door).