Do you believe the story that Jesse James met Billy the Kid in 1879? Philippe Morcrette Talence, Gironde, France That account comes from Dr. Henry F. Hoyt, a friend of Billy’s, who was working in the Exchange Hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico, in 1879. In late July, while having dinner in the Adobe Hotel in Hot Springs, he ran into Billy and a companion the Kid referred to as “Mr. Howard from Tennessee.” The Kid later told Hoyt that Mr. Howard was, in reality, Jesse James, who was in town vi
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