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Billy the Kid was born Henry McCarty on September 17, 1859 in New York City to poor Irish immigrants.
Billy the Kid later started using the alias of William H. Bonney. He was a poor orphan who became a frontier fugitive. He was a popular subject in dime novels and he was sensationalized in newspaper reports.
He moved west with his mother after his father d-ed. After his mother d-ed of tuberculosis in Silver City, New Mexico, in 1874, Billy the Kid was left to fend for himself at age 14.
He committed petty theft for survival, stealing food and clothes. He was arrested and effected a dramatic escape at age 15. Then he traveled to Arizona and New Mexico. He worked odd jobs and started stealing horses.
John Tunstall, a British rancher and merchant in Lincoln County, New Mexico hired him. Tunstall was brutally m-rdered by a rival group backed by a local monopoly known as the "Santa Fe Ring."
Tunstall's employees formed a group called the Regulators to get revenge.
Billy was involved in the de-ths of about eight to nine men, often fighting alongside others or in self-defense although popular legend claims he k-lled 21 men, one for each year of his life.
Pat Garrett, a former drinking buddy turned sheriff arrested Billy in 1880. Billy was convicted of m-rdering Sheriff William Brady and sentenced to h-ng.
Billy escaped on April 28, 1881, k-lling two deputies in the process. Garrett tracked Billy the Kid to the ranch home of Pete Maxwell in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
Garrett sh-t and k-lled Billy the Kid, age 21, in the dark on July 14, 1881.
Public sentiment turned against Garrett for k-lling Billy the Kid as sensational stories and popular culture turned Billy the Kid into a 'Robin Hood of the west' figure, convincing the public he was a misunderstood rebel rather than a cold-hearted k-ller.
Garrett wrote a book about Billy the Kid in order to clear his own name. Billy the Kid was the topic of more movies than any other outlaw.
Billy the Kid later started using the alias of William H. Bonney. He was a poor orphan who became a frontier fugitive. He was a popular subject in dime novels and he was sensationalized in newspaper reports.
He moved west with his mother after his father d-ed. After his mother d-ed of tuberculosis in Silver City, New Mexico, in 1874, Billy the Kid was left to fend for himself at age 14.
He committed petty theft for survival, stealing food and clothes. He was arrested and effected a dramatic escape at age 15. Then he traveled to Arizona and New Mexico. He worked odd jobs and started stealing horses.
John Tunstall, a British rancher and merchant in Lincoln County, New Mexico hired him. Tunstall was brutally m-rdered by a rival group backed by a local monopoly known as the "Santa Fe Ring."
Tunstall's employees formed a group called the Regulators to get revenge.
Billy was involved in the de-ths of about eight to nine men, often fighting alongside others or in self-defense although popular legend claims he k-lled 21 men, one for each year of his life.
Pat Garrett, a former drinking buddy turned sheriff arrested Billy in 1880. Billy was convicted of m-rdering Sheriff William Brady and sentenced to h-ng.
Billy escaped on April 28, 1881, k-lling two deputies in the process. Garrett tracked Billy the Kid to the ranch home of Pete Maxwell in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
Garrett sh-t and k-lled Billy the Kid, age 21, in the dark on July 14, 1881.
Public sentiment turned against Garrett for k-lling Billy the Kid as sensational stories and popular culture turned Billy the Kid into a 'Robin Hood of the west' figure, convincing the public he was a misunderstood rebel rather than a cold-hearted k-ller.
Garrett wrote a book about Billy the Kid in order to clear his own name. Billy the Kid was the topic of more movies than any other outlaw.
