On the Trail of Sheriff Pat Garrett
From Amarillo, Texas, to Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Categories: Renegade Roads
By: Johnny D. Boggs 01/01/2008
In the Black Range
The county courthouse has been reduced to ruins, and few call Hillsboro home these days. Yet the town springs to life with tourists galore during the Apple Festival on Labor Day weekend, and what was once Sadie Orchard’s Ocean Grove Hotel has been transformed into the Black Range Museum.
But back to Pat.
Testimony in the trial began on May 29, 1899, with Garrett testifying for the prosecution June 1-2. Although the trial lasted more than two weeks, it took the jury only seven, maybe eight, minutes to acquit Lee and Gilliland. Lee would serve two terms in the state senate in the 1920s, and get that park named after him.
And Pat?
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