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...
A Daring Escape
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The Kid
The Kid’s First Kill
Windy Cahill becomes the first victim of Billy. August 17, 1877. Henry McCarty, also known as Henry Antrim, later known as Billy the Kid, kills his...
The Wrong Hat
Charlie Bowdre wore the Kid’s sombrero…and paid for it. On December 23, 1880, Billy the Kid pal Charlie Bowdre bit the dust. And it happened, in...
The Lincoln County War: Armistice Gone Bad
When Lew Wallace was appointed Territorial Governor of New Mexico in 1879 one of the first missions he hoped to accomplish was to stop the killings...
Third Time’s the Charm for Bob Boze Bell’s Billy the Kid The Final Word
The Illustrated Life and Times of Billy The Kid: The Final Word (Two Roads West Publishing, $24.95) is Bob Boze Bell’s magnum opus on the subject...
Phantom Of The Desert
The Apache Kid is as elusive in death as he was in life.
Snowstorm Ambush
Five outlaws rode out of a powder-blue fog on the night of December 19, 1880, straight into an ambush sprung by Sheriff-elect Pat Garrett. As Billy...