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True West Exclusive: Long Lost Jailhouse Interview with Billy the Kid and Illustration Uncovered

by | Mar 30, 2020 | Features & Gunfights

The interview with Billy the Kid in a Santa Fe jail—which appeared on page 4 of the January 20, 1881, edition of the Las Vegas Gazette—was shared by James B. Mills exclusively with True West. I have been seriously digging into the Billy the Kid story for the past three decades. I have walked where he walked, and I


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