“Anything for Billy” is a historical fiction book about ‘Billy the Kid’ or Henry McCarty. The story is mostly told by an old man by the name of Ben Sippy. Mr. Sippy lived in New York with his wife and nine children. One day while he was sending his butler out to buy dime novels he [the butler] just fell over dead. From then on Mr.
Sippy decided he was going to move out west and write his own dime novels. He became one of the most popular novelists in the US after that. When he first met Billy he thought for sure he was going to be killed because he had a mule and Billy had well, nothing. But sure enough they started talking and Billy decided to take Mr. Sippy along on all his adventures from then on. First of all, they ended up in Greasy Corners, a small bar in the middle of nowhere pretty much.
In Greasy Corners Mr. Sippy met a few other cowboys and they stayed for a few days. Then came word that Will Isinglass, the owner of almost all the land in Texas and New Mexico, wanted them out of Greasy Corners because it was on his land. Some of them stayed to fight and others left in a hurry. Billy, who had just met Katerina Garza [Will Isinglass’ Daughter] decided to run off with her and of course took Mr. Sippy along.
They fell in love and spent months together doing pretty near to nothing all day long. Then one-day Billy’s best friend Joe Love lady rode up and said it was time for them to go they needed to do something. Ignoring Katie’s crying Billy got up on his horse and rode off, promising her he would be back. Except for the fact that within the time Billy was gone he met Cecily snow, a woman much older than him and Katie. Cecily asked a lot from him, the biggest thing was to kill Mesty Wool ah, Will Isinglass’s lave pretty much.
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Billy Bathgate, is a book of a young boys transition into manhood. It is an amazingly well-written book that intrigued me the entire way through. It starts out in Billys hometown, the Bronx of New York in the twenties; a time of social unrest and prohibition. The apartment building Billy lives in is not the epitome of cleanliness. The streets are littered with papers and loud noises of the trains ...
When Will wanted someone dead he’d just ask Mesty to do it. Cecily was the one who actually shot and killed Mesty but she got the idea from Billy. He had fallen in love with Cecily Snow and when Katie got word of it she was very angry. Next time she saw Billy that if he left her for a white woman she would kill him herself. Well, after the fight at Greasy Corners and after all the gunfighters had died and most of the cowboys that they knew had been shot and killed they decided to make one last stand. They all knew that not only Will Isinglass was coming for Billy but so was Bloody Feathers [Will Isinglass’s on] Tully Roebuck and Long Dog Hawkins were sent to kill him also.
They were all there, waiting for just the right time to shoot, Billy wasn’t scared, and he accepted that it was his time. Just as will isinglass stepped into view Katie Garza rode up on her horse and shot Billy, just shot him. Billy fell over and out from behind walls and trees stepped all the others, Bloody Feathers and Tully and Long Dog, complaining because he didn’t get to kill Billy. Katie got off her horse and stood next to Billy looking at him and crying. He started to talk and all she could say was “hurry up and die, chap ito.” Then he just closed his eyes and was gone. Billy ended up killing only a few people in this book, not nearly as some people think he did.
Overall this was a good book and I’d recommend it to anyone who would like to generally learn about Billy the Kid.
