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A family Bible belonging to the sister of Brushy Bill, who claimed to be Billy the Kid, listed his birth year as 1879. If this is true, then Brushy Bill couldn’t possibly be Billy the Kid, right?

by | Mar 1, 2007 | Inside History

A family Bible belonging to the sister of Brushy Bill, who claimed to be Billy the Kid, listed his birth year as 1879. If this is true, then Brushy Bill couldn’t possibly be Billy the Kid, right? Jerry West Waxahachie, Texas Billy the Kid expert Fred Nolan—and I don’t know anybody who knows the subject more than he does—says Brushy Bill was not Billy the Kid. “Back in December 1987,” he tells me, “Mrs. Geneva Pittmon, who was Brushy Bill’s niece (not sister), replied to a letter


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