On The Trail of Pat Garrett
Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of His Death

February 29, 1908, a leap year like this one, started warm, as it often does in southern New Mexico. And though it was Pat Garrett’s last day alive, it wasn’t the beginning of this story. The story actually began some time earlier.

After he stopped being sheriff and lost a bid for a seat in the territorial legislature, Garrett found himself in the late 1890s on the trail of the men who abducted Col. Albert Fountain and his son, Henry. Neither was ever found and, because of the lack of evidence, a jury freed the men Garrett captured as murder suspects. Sometime after that venture and in the early years of the new century, Garrett began ranching.

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