Billy the Kid is best known for his time in New Mexico, but did he also spend time in Arizona?
Jim Hanson
Tempe, Arizona
Henry McCarty visited Arizona the first time in September 1875, right after he escaped the Silver City, NM jail (where he’d been held in connection with the theft of some clothes from a Chinese laundry). His stepfather, William Antrim, refused to take him in at his home in Clifton, so young Henry moved on to the Gila Valley. Homeless and broke, he took jobs herding st
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