November 27, 1880 The cook at the Greathouse Ranch, Joe Steck, steps outside the main ranch house to harness a team of horses and encounters a bristling row of Winchesters. The leader of a White Oaks posse in New Mexico Territory, Will Hudgens, hands him a note that demands the men inside the ranch house give themselves up. “I took the note in and delivered it to the one I knew to be Billy the Kid,” Steck later recalls. “He read the paper to his compadres, who all laughed at the idea o
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