Featured in this lot are Authentic Sheriff Pat Garrett Dice Pair, circa 1880 to 1906. Provenance: Tombstone Western Heritage Museum, Tombstone, Arizona, ex-collection Jarivs Garrett, ex-collection Pat Garrett, ex-collection John McNellis, ex-collection R.E.M. Western Collectibles / El Paso Saddlery and ex-collection of Bobby McNellis. Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (1850-1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent best known for killing Billy the Kid. He was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, as well as Doña Ana County, New Mexico. Prior to becoming a lawman, Garrett was a bartender at Beaver Smith’s saloon in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. It was at the saloon that Garrett met and often gambled with William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid. The two were seen together so often they soon took on the nicknames “Big Casino” and “Little Casino.” It is evident that the two were friends, but how close has not been determined. Some say that Billy the Kid was the closest friend Garrett had at that time. The Lincoln County War in New Mexico and the Regulators would launch Billy the Kid to everlasting fame mostly because news accounts attached his name to everything the Regulators did. The Lincoln County War brought him to the front. It is likely that in some cases, Billy the Kid was credited with killings that in fact were carried out by other Regulators. By the Regulators' end, any killings committed by them had his name appended, whether he was the actual shooter or not. Provenance: Tombstone Western Heritage Museum, Tombstone, Arizona. Letter included is from John McNellis, Vice President of El Paso Saddlery Company. El Paso Saddlery had outlaws Black Jack Ketchum and John Wesley Hardin, as well as lawmen Bat Masterson and Pat Garrett as a clients. The dice came from Garrett's youngest son, Jarvis, who at one time worked for a subsidiary of El Paso Saddlery, R.E.M. Western Relics. The dice have the museum label, "PAT GARRETT'S PERSONAL PAIR OF DICE from his gaming box. Gift from JOHN McNELLIS", museum code, "LO147". Dice each measure .625" x .625" x .625", weight is U6.