Sheriff Pat Garrett

The Claiborne boy had nothing to go home to. His father bought a plantation here when Pat was about three, and the war wrecked the family's money. His mother died on March 25, 1867, and his father on February 5, 1868, leaving the place more than $30,000 in debt. Pat rode west on January 25, 1869, at eighteen. He died on February 29, 1908, shot near Las Cruces. Jesse Wayne Brazel was tried for the killing and acquitted in May 1909.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Germantown Colony Museum — 19 mi
  Two hewn-log buildings from an 1836 religious commune near Minden, the earliest of its kind in Louisiana, with a museum added in 1975.
• Eddie G. Robinson Museum — 27 mi
  A state museum in a former women's gymnasium at Grambling State University, on the 408-win coach who sent more than 200 players to the pros.
• El Dorado Commercial Historic District — 30 mi
  The courthouse square and brick blocks of a town that jumped from 4,000 people to nearly 30,000 after the 1921 Busey well, listed on the National Register in 2003.

More markers nearby

• T. H. Harris — 3.3 mi
• Friendship CME Church — 4.6 mi
• Arizona Academy Site — 4.6 mi
• Claiborne Parish Court House — 7.2 mi