Billy and Paulita: The Saga of Billy the Kid, Paulita Maxwell, and the Santa Fe Ring (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781949626018)

Billy and Paulita, a docufiction novel by GALE COOPER, is a virtual reality portraying the life of Billy Bonney aka Billy the Kid, and using 40,000 pages of archival documents and books and over 300 expert consultants. Experience the star-crossed love of the Kid and young heiress to New Mexico Territory's Maxwell Land Grant fortune, Paulita Maxwell, against the backdrop of the Lincoln County War freedom fight against the Santa Fe Ring. Comprehend why Billy lost his pardon promised by Governor Lew Wallace. Follow Billy's capture, hanging trial, jailbreak, and near-midnight ambush in the Maxwell mansion, where Paulita would have heard the fatal shot. Author, Gale Cooper, a Harvard educated M.D. forensic psychiatrist specializing in murder case consultation, is a revisionist historian of Billy the Kid and writer of multiple Billy the Kid books.