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,

January/February 2004
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- New Mexico Piñon Coffee Company
- Narcissa Whitman
- Vera’s Cowboy Done Her Wrong
- From Wild Women to the Wild Plains
- A River Runs Through History
- When did American cowboys stop wearing Levi jeans?
- Did Cole Younger have any children? I ask because a doctor in town comes into my barbershop and claims to be his great-grandson.
- Breaking Out More Shovels
- Zip Zapped!
- Striking Similarities
- Chisholm Trail Heritage Center
- Jack Elam (1919-2003)
- Not Just Another Pretty Voice
- Those Singing Cowboys
- Deadwood Drama
- Vera’s Cowboy Done Her Wrong
- I’ve heard there was a passenger on the Titanic named William P. Longley, and that someone from the family of Wild Bill Longley identified the traveler as the outlaw. Evidently, Longley faked his death only to sink along with the Titanic. Is that true?
- How did Martha Jane Canary acquire the nickname “Calamity?”
- Did the old stagecoach route between Benson and Tucson follow what is today’s I-10?