Website of Ralph Estes
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Some books
Aces & Eights: Poker in the Old West: How the cowboys,
outlaws, wild women, and lawmen of the Old West - Wild Bill Hickok, Doc H
olliday,
Calamity Jane, Billy the Kid, all the rest - spent most of their time at
the poker table, with occasional interruptions for gunfighting.
Without poker, would there even have been a
wild west? -
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Billy the Kid! That story’s been told. And yet -- no one has
given Billy’s side.
Until now, with
My Own
Story: The Autobiography of Billy the Kid. What
were Billy’s feelings, his intentions, as his saga unfolded?
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more --
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The next book,
The Hundred Year Waltz: Jack Thorp and the Growth
of Western Music, is nearly finished.
Me and Billy: Ridin', Shootin', and
Singin' with Billy the Kid
Come ride with America's favorite outlaw -
Billy the Kid.
The callow desperado who killed 21 men, one
for each year of his life; robbed and rustled, tortured and murdered -
while always laughing.
Or the lad who sang with a beautiful Irish
tenor in Sunday School, organized and staged a musical show at the age
of 12, and was always a compadre to the native New Mexicans.
A one-person show about the real Billy the
Kid, not the fantasy constructed by authors and moviemakers - the orphan
boy who challenged the Santa Fe Ring and its minions in Lincoln County,
and who paid with his life.
"Like Will Rogers with music."
Click here for a
one-page flyer; or for a short video sample of "Me and Billy" click here.
About Ralph
With tunes and tales he blends true history with humor and song,
accompanied on the autoharp.
Ralph has performed all over: the Lincoln State Monument, Ruidoso's
Hubbard Museum of the American West, Ghost Ranch, Albuquerque Folk
Festival, Red River Days, University of New Mexico, the International
Western Music Association convention and festival, Albuquerque Museum, federal and state parks &
monuments, performing arts centers, house concerts and theaters.
In another life Ralph was a business professor, author of ten books and
many scholarly articles. See Professor
Ralph for a one-page vita.