Comparing Billy to Billy

Late last year, our publisher emeritus, Robert G. McCubbin, received a phone call from a gentleman, whose family had formerly lived in Silver City, New Mexico, asking if McCubbin would take a look at a photo of Billy the Kid that the family had owned for a long time. The man and his wife brought the photo to Santa Fe. McCubbin took a good look at it and assured them, “It is the real thing.” The family’s carte de visite (CDV) was probably made no earlier than after the Kid escaped from t