Some stray thoughts on Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), the "friendship" between the real Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, the nuances of "historical accuracy" in Westerns & one of the ways I think historians have overcorrected in their attempts to combat bad history...
Hey, here's a thread showing the various historical characters in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid alongside their real-life counterparts.
First up, of course, is Pat Garrett: