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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.
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 ...
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]
In 2004, 2005 and 2006, when I was a reporter for The Albuquerque Tribune, I rode the Billy the Kid Trail Ride, a 130- to 167-mile (depending on the route) horseback ride from Lincoln to Fort Sumner.
His specific task, if elected, was to apprehend Billy's gang, consisting then of Dave Rudabaugh, Billy Wilson, Tom O'Folliard, and Charlie Bowdre. In December 1880, Sheriff Garrett shot O'Folliard and Bowdre dead. Bonney / Billy the Kid, Rudabaugh, and Wilson were later captured or killed also by Garrett. [6]
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Authentic Story of Billy the Kid. New York: Atomic Books, Inc. This is a brief version of Garrett's work, the first in a series, American Folk-Lore and Humor, and published to sell for twenty-five cents. {}: CS1 maint: postscript ; Garrett, Pat F. (1953). The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, the Noted Desperado of the Southwest. Houston: The ...
One of Tunstall's employees was the 18-year-old William Bonney (née Henry McCarty, aka William Henry Antrim, aka El Chivato), who was later dubbed "Billy the Kid" when leading a gang of his own. In the Spring of 1877, Sheriff Brady was beaten up by two bravados , who were believed to be acting on John Tunstall's orders, in the middle of the ...