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Billy the Kid and Jesse Evans

by | Dec 19, 2018 | True West Blog

The question comes up: Did Jesse Evans and Billy the Kid ever have it out? They didn’t really “have it out” but they rode together briefly and circumstances put them on opposite sides in the Lincoln County War. Billy might have been intimidated by the older and more experienced Evans. Let’s summarize their relationship. After the Kid killed Windy Cahill in August, 1877 in Arizona he fled back


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