Mark lee gardner biography for kids
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Mark Lee Gardner
I know someone is into Billy the Kid as soon as they ask me what he was really like, as if I knew him personally.
Some people are Kid Krazy, and some people are Kid haters. I prefer the Krazies.
The best time I’ve ever had playing music is performing with my son, Vance, who is a heck of a young fiddle player. Check us out on YouTube!
The secret to writing a good book is finding a great story and telling it not only unlike any previous author, but also with the same freshness, excitement and suspense as when that story first unfolded.
Don’t get me started on for-profit filmmakers who want your expertise gratis. I can’t tell you how many times a major cable channel has asked for a free interview—while everyone else on the production gets paid.
You can’t reason with those who believe Jim Miller killed Pat Garrett. Ha!
The part that stunned me about the James-Younger Northfield Raid in 1876 was the incredible stamina of the outlaws. Cole
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Mark Lee Gardner is a musical historian. He fryst vatten also an acclaimed author and award-winning performer of traditional American frontier music.
He received his master’s degree in American studies from the University of Wyoming. He has worked with the National Park Service, PBS Television and National Geographic.
Now, Gardner is curator of the traveling “Power of Music” exhibit on display at the Boulder History Museum until Aug. 8. The exhibit features photographs of Americans and their musical instruments between 1860 and 1915 as well as preserved instruments from the period.
On Sunday, Gardner will demonstrate the songs and styles of the time period of the exhibit on the museum lawn. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for kids and seniors, and free to museum members.
After the performance, Gardner will be signing CDs as well as copies of his latest book “To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West.̶
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Mark Lee Gardner
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Born
in Moberly, Mo., The United StatesWebsite
http://www.markleegardner.com
Genre
Nonfiction, History, Biography
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Mark Lee Gardner grew up in rural Missouri in the small town of Breckenridge (pop. 500), in the heart of historic Jesse James country. He's written extensively about the American West, on subjects such as the Santa Fe Trail, George Armstrong Custer, Bent's Old Fort, Geronimo, Billy the Kid, and Crazy Horse. His book on the 1876 Northfield raid by the notorious James-Younger gang, Shot All To Hell, received the Western Writers of America Spur Award for best western nonfiction historical book, the Best Book Award from the Wild West History Association, and the Milton F. Perry Award for Best Non