"The House" Later the courthouse where Billy The Kid made his last escape, now a museum.
Welcome! This website is dedicated to the audiobook version of Robert M. Utley’s “High Noon in Lincoln: Violence on the Western Frontier” published by University Press AudioBooks and narrated by Bill Pryce.
“In research, writing, and interpretation, High Noon in Lincoln is a superb book. It is one of the best books (maybe the best) ever written on a violent episode in the West”—Richard Maxwell Brown, author of Strains of Violence: Historical Studies of American Violence and Vigilantism.
University Audiobooks says:
“Here is the most detailed and most engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two-year facedown and shootout in Lincoln. Until now, New Mexico’s late nineteenth-century Lincoln County War has served primarily as the backdrop for a succession of mythical renderings of Billy the Kid in American popular culture.”
About the author: Robert M. Utley is a former Chief Historian of the National Park Service and has written over fifteen books on a variety of aspects of history of the American West. They include “The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890” and “Four Fighters of Lincoln County.” His writings have received numerous prizes, including the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Center’s Wrangler Award, the Western Writers of American Spur Award, the Caughey Prize from the Western History Association, and the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History.
About the narrator: Bill Pryce graduated from New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell and earned his B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He began a radio career in Ruidoso, Lincoln County, New Mexico. He has been to a lot of the locations described in the book. Most non-historic photos used on this site were taken by the narrator. Bill currently narrates audiobooks and works in other genres of voice acting from his home studio outside Nashville, Tennessee.
The audiobook High Noon in Lincoln is available on Audible (an Amazon company), iTunes, and University Audiobooks. Use the QR code on the right to access the book on your mobile device.
Billy the Kid is no role model but ever since I’ve watched Young Guns I have been a fan. I make it a point to read something related to Billy the Kid every week.