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Following Billy the Kid

by | Oct 29, 2023 | Renegade Roads, Travel & Preservation

Tracking the legend across Arizona and New Mexico is still an adventure. It’s easy to start a travel story when you know where your subject was born. Mark Twain? Florida, Missouri. Billy the Kid …? “Billy the Kid was reportedly born all over the world,” says Melody Groves, author of Before Billy the Kid: The Boy Behind the Legendary Outlaw. “First is Ireland, supposedly coming over with his mom—in 1846, like she did? I’ve read New York City, Indianapolis, and my favorite is Linco


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