“What if everything we know about Billy the Kid is wrong?”

One hundred thirty-four years have passed since Billy the Kid’s daring escape from the Lincoln County jail in New Mexico Territory. Sixty-three years have passed since two researchers discovered documents confirming the Kid’s real name. Their findings have been the “rock upon which almost everything written about the Kid’s life has been founded,” says Fred Nolan, one of the foremost authorities on the Kid. But as new findings by Nolan and other Kid enthusiasts reveal, the Kid’s lo