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Henry McCarty (September 17 or November 23, 1859 – July 14, 1881), alias William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, was an American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West who is alleged to have killed 21 men before he was shot and killed at the age of 21. [ 2][ 3] He is also known for his involvement in New Mexico 's Lincoln County War ...
The modern legend of Billy the Kid as an immortal figure of the Old West first developed within a larger cultural context of social upheaval in the late 19th and early 20th century United States. [ 28] Between 1897 and 1909, during the Progressive era of political activism and reform, the popular American novelist Emerson Hough wrote magazine ...
Pat Garrett. / 32.30114389°N 106.78553000°W / 32.30114389; -106.78553000 ( Gravesite of Pat Garrett) Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett (June 5, 1850 – February 29, 1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent known for killing Billy the Kid. He was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, as well as Doña Ana ...
Lori Goodloe, president of the Billy the Kid Outlaw Gang, an organization founded in 1987 to preserve, protect and promote the true history of the Kid in New Mexico, attended the open house ...
Many of those who became best known as "Regulators" had a long history with one another previously. William H. Bonney, aka Billy the Kid or Henry McCarty, would become the best known, mostly because news accounts attached his name to everything the Regulators did. The Lincoln County War brought him to the front, but several of the other ...
1994 (New York, Indian Head Books) The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid, The Noted Desperado of the Southwest is a biography and partly first-hand account written by Pat Garrett, sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, in collaboration with a ghostwriter, Marshall Ashmun "Ash" Upson. During the summer of 1881 in a small New Mexican village ...
Joe Ely recorded the song "Me and Billy the Kid" on his 1987 album Lord of the Highway. [ 55] Running Wild recorded the song "Billy the Kid" on their 1991 album Blazon Stone. [ 56] Tom Petty wrote the song "Billy the Kid", released on his 1999 album Echo. [ 57] Dia Frampton's "Billy the Kid," on the 2011 album Red.
Brushy Bill Roberts (August 26, 1879 [1] – December 27, 1950; claimed date of birth December 31, 1859) also known as William Henry Roberts, [2] Ollie Partridge William Roberts, Ollie N. Roberts, or Ollie L. Roberts, was an American man who attracted attention in the late 1940s and the 1950s by claiming to be Western outlaw William H. Bonney, (who actually died in 1881).