On February 29, 1908, Jesse Wayne Brazel walked into the Doña Ana County sheriff’s office and announced, “Lock me up. . …
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The Doctor is in…and Out Scurlock found a way to escape Lincoln County.
Josiah “Doc” Scurlock was a major player in the Lincoln County War. And he was in the region even before, going to work…
A Belle of Old Fort Sumner An unpublished manuscript by Walter Noble Burns offers revelations to the biographer’s groundbreaking account of outlaw Billy the Kid’s life.
Walter Noble Burns was onto something. A 56-year-old Chicago journalist, Burns had become intrigued by a long-dead and l…
The Brutal Truth About Most Billy the Kid Wannabes
We get a “new” Billy the Kid photo sent to us almost every week. The photo of the cocky-looking gent on the opposite pag…
A Plague of Flea Market Billys Another alleged Billy the Kid tintype finds a new worldwide audience.
The conversation all started with a letter from my hometown, Buffalo, New York. Rob McElroy had sent a note to the Yahoo…
What History Has Taught Me: Ron Lesser
The poster I love the most, out of the more than 100 movie and television show posters I have created, is the one for 19…
The Man Who Invented Billy the Kid Who was Ash Upson?
Long before Walter Noble Burns arrived on the scene with his Saga of Billy the Kid in the 1920s, the largely fictitious …
The Dish Washer
In 1878 a young boy named Henry McCarty washed dishes in the kitchen at the Hotel de Luna on the edge of the Camp Grant …
Cool Under Fire
Billy the Kid was cool dude under fire, something he demonstrated on several occasions. For example, on the evening of J…
Basking in The Limelight
Billy the Kid and four of his gang were delivered to the jail in Las Vegas, New Mexico on December 26, 1880. They were l…