In 1973’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Bob Dylan played the Kid’s knife-throwing buddy Alias. Was he real?

In 1973’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Bob Dylan played the Kid’s knife-throwing buddy Alias. Was he real? Peter L. Stadlbaur Maubray, Belgium Billy the Kid’s only Arizona sidekick was an ex-soldier named John Mackie, who the Kid knew while he was a small-time thief in Bonita. His best pal in New Mexico was Tom Folliard. Alias was a fictional figure, but the Kid called his friend Alias in ghostwriter Ash Upson’s portion of Pat Garrett’s 1882 book, The Authentic Life of Bill