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The Billy Buff War

by | Jul 1, 2006 | Features & Gunfights

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Billy the Kid’s legend has hovered over the landscape of the American West for 125 years, a Hindenburg of hype and fantasy, always there to nourish those who merely look up. It will never crash and never burn. The only question is where will it go next? In its latest incarnation, Airship Billy has come to Arizona. Last May 19, Tom Sullivan and Steve Sederwall traveled to Prescott to exhume from the Arizona Pioneers’ Home cemetery the bones of John Miller, a man who claimed that he was the


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