Scholars uncover answers and create more questions on the outlaw’s life and family from New York to New Mexico.
This past year has been a watershed in terms of new scholarship on Billy the Kid. Here, in a True West exclusive, are the new finds you need to know about.
—Bob Boze Bell
Was Billy’s Mother a Five Points Pros

True West July/August 2021
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- Western Roundup: July/August 2021
- The Trails and Tales of the Old West Go on Forever
- What History Has Taught Me: Ronnie Dunn
- Medora, North Dakota
- Magical Mezcal
- True Grit
- The Kid’s First Kill
- The 1841 “Mississippi” Rifle
- The West’s First Preservationist Will Surprise You
- Great Danger Rests on the Town! God Save Us!
- Shooting Back