For this internet research worksheet, students use the internet to answer ten questions. Six of the questions are multiple choice, four are short answer questions.

Students analyze the role that gunfighters played in the settlement of the West and distinguish between their factual and fictional accounts. Using internet research, students explore the life of Billy the Kid. They write an essay on...

Students examine the life of Billy the Kid. In this Westward Expansion lesson, students use Internet and print sources to research the contributions of gunfighters to the settlement of the American West.

Search American Memory collections and play the role of a detective in this instructional activity that seeks to find out if Billy the Kid really was killed by Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

An eyewitness account from Pat Garrett that explains the circumstances surrounding his killing of Billy the Kid.