The oft-told exploits of Billy the Kid and Australia's Ned Kelly vividly endure in the public imaginations of their respective countries. A fun-loving sharpshooter, Billy had a quick temper and a gift for escaping the law, while Kelly was an Outback Robin Hood who battled against British colonial authority, but their reputations are so weighted with legend and myth, the truth of their lives has become obscure. In this double biography, Robert Utley reveals the parallel courses of these notorious contemporaries who lived by the gun, were executed while still in their twenties, and remain compelling figures in the folklore of their homelands.