How do we know the tintype photo is really of Billy the Kid?
Frank Cutler
Sodus, New York
“It is definitely Billy the Kid,” says Robert G. McCubbin, Old West photo expert and president emeritus of the Wild West History Association. “It was used by Pat Garrett twice (a steel engraving, since at that time publishers didn’t have the capability to print photographs) in his 1882 book, The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, as a frontispiece and on the rear cover.”
Paulita Maxwell Ja
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