If anyone knows Billy the Kid, it’s the sheriff in the town that claims to hold the outlaw’s grave. Sheriff Gary Graves has ridden the “last ride of Billy the Kid” on horseback and wants it to become a yearly trek from Lincoln County to Fort Sumner. He lives on the ranch where Billy once visited, the very place the legendary outlaw supposedly scratched “The Kid” onto a rock, which was placed in downtown Fort Sumner years later. He wears Billy’s likeness on his official uniform,


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