Was Billy the Kid’s girlfriend pregnant at the time he was killed?
Paul Cullor
Prescott, Arizona
Some experts think so. In The West of Billy the Kid, Frederick Nolan wrote, “...Paulita Maxwell, who, if the gossip Garrett’s wife Apolonaria had doubtless heard from her sister Celsa was true, was pregnant with Billy’s child.”
The Kid’s killer, Sheriff Pat Garrett, figured Paulita had told the Kid about her pregnancy, and that was why the outlaw came to Fort Sumner, instead of
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