She Taught the Kid a Lesson

So little information exists about the childhood and youth of Billy the Kid that many of us, happening upon the merest morsel, swallow it eagerly and entire. So for the best part of 50 years, El Paso journalist Bill McGaw’s account of Billy’s schooldays has been widely accepted as accurate. Based on a series of 1960 interviews with Patience Glennon, daughter of Mary Richards, the Kid’s schoolteacher in Silver City, New Mexico, the articles first appeared in the El Paso Herald-Post in 19