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  2. Billy the Kid - Wikipedia

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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 was linked to nine murders: four for which he was solely responsible, and five in which he may have played a role alongside others.

  3. Legend of Billy the Kid - Wikipedia

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    Billy the Kid c. 1880. The legend of Billy the Kid has acquired iconic status in American folklore.More has been written about Billy the Kid than any other gunslinger in the history of the American Old West, [1] while hundreds of books, motion pictures, radio and television programs and even a ballet have been inspired by his legend. [2]

  4. Lincoln County War - Wikipedia

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    Pat Garrett was named County Sheriff in 1880, and he hunted down Billy the Kid, killing two other former Regulators in the process. The war was fictionalized by several Hollywood movies, including The Left Handed Gun in 1958, John Wayne’s Chisum in 1970, Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid in 1973 and Young Guns in 1988.

  5. The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid - Wikipedia

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    In the weeks that followed the death of Billy the Kid, several articles written mostly in New Mexican newspapers and dime novels depicted the Kid's death in ways that put Pat Garrett in a bad light. As the author wrote in his introduction to this biography, "I am incited to this labor, in a measure, by an impulse to correct the thousand false ...

  6. Emilio Estevez on how he swiped Billy the Kid role from ...

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  7. ‘Billy the Kid’ shot dead in failed revenge attack, court told

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    A street gangster nicknamed Billy the Kid died in a hail of bullets during a revenge ride-out which ended in “crushing defeat”, a court has heard. Billy McCullagh, 27, suffered two shots in ...

  8. Lincoln County Regulators - Wikipedia

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    Ultimately, the Lincoln County War accomplished little other than to foment distrust and animosity in the area and to make fugitives out of the surviving Regulators, most notably Billy the Kid. The Kid, Scurlock, Bowdre, Chavez y Chavez, Waite, Saunders, Brewer, Brown, McNab and the Coe cousins received the most notoriety as being "Regulators".

  9. Young Guns (film) - Wikipedia

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    Young Guns is a 1988 American Western action film [2] directed and produced by Christopher Cain and written by John Fusco.The film dramatizes the adventures of Billy the Kid during the Lincoln County War, which took place in New Mexico in 1877–78.