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Billy the Kid
On the New Mexico Trail of Billy the Kid
Catherine and the Kid She was known in Kansas as “The Widow McCarty” and a resident in Silver City, New Mexico, described her as “a jolly Irish...
Brushy Billy
“What people choose to believe is a fact in itself.” —Leon Metz 1948 William V. Morrison is working as an investigator for a law firm in...
Billy Before Burns
Before the Myth was penned, The Kid had already become a Legend in Theaters, tabloids and the American Imagination There is no...
The Resurrection of Billy the Kid
Billy The Kid It all starts with that only known photo of Billy the Kid. He is standing there with a rifle, right? That’s what...
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid–The Way It Should Be Seen
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid–The Way It Should Be Seen Fifty years after its first release, the film’s recent version is considered the best....
A Daring Escape
The Kid gets out of jail. April 28, 1881. Billy the Kid was being held in the Lincoln County Courthouse; he was sentenced to hang for the murder of...
Billy Got His Gun
How did the Kid arm himself for his big escape? Some accounts claim that when Billy the Kid escaped from the Lincoln County Jail in 1881, he used a...
The Kid’s Comeuppance
Pat Garrett takes down Billy July 14, 1881. Billy the Kid had come to the Maxwell house at Fort Sumner to cut a slice of meat. He was barefooted,...
Thanks to Al Harper Billy the Kid Has His Day at Old Tucson
Last weekend we had a great celebration at Old Tucson when we presented our True Westerner Award to Al Harper in the Grand Hotel Saloon. Not only...
Sieber Goes Down
The Apache Kid vs. Al Sieber, Then Everyone in Arizona June 1, 1887 Absent from duty for five days, the Apache Kid, along with four other Apache...
Wyatt Earp, Wagons and Wild Women
What is your opinion of Stuart Lake’s Wyatt Earp biography Frontier Marshal? Josh Taylor Austin, Texas Much of Lake’s book comes from the fertile...