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Wanted: Billy the Kid Wanted Poster

by | Jun 1, 2004 | Features & Gunfights

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                  For most of the last century, historians believed Billy the Kid never appeared on a wanted poster. True, Gov. Lew Wallace posted a wanted notice for “William Bonn[e]y alias The Kid” in a Santa Fe newspaper, but that is not the traditional poster of our Old West outlaws. This conventional wisdom about the Kid was turned on its head recently when the Lew Wallace Collection at the Indiana Historical


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