While Billy was gone, Garrett waited in the dark in his bedroom. When Billy entered, Garrett shot him to death. Back on April 1, 1878, Billy the Kid ambushed Sheriff William Brady and one deputy in Lincoln, New Mexico, after ranch owner John Tunstall had been murdered. Billy had worked...
Historical charactersAlexander the Great, Alfred the Great, Mark Antony, Attila the Hun, Augustus, Thomas à Becket, Billy the Kid, The Black Prince, Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart), Lucrezia Borgia, BoudiccaorBoadicea, Brutus, Buddha, Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody), Julius ...
–Billy the Kid Game 7 vs. the NJ Devils 5/1/2023, 8:00 PM Christened Patrick Henry McCarthy, Billy the Kid was born in New York City in 1859. He took on the alas William H. Bonney after he became a penalty killer for the Lincoln County Regulators. Share this: Thirty days… I ...
Billy the Kid is known as the Old West's favorite outlaw and was one of the most notorious gunfighters of the American West. Click for more facts.
Former resident digs into Billy the Kid historyDenise M. BaranUnland
Billy the Kid has become one of the most iconic figures of the American West. But many details of his life remain unknown or heavily debated among scholars and historians, from his childhood prior to his arrival in New Mexico, to the circumstances surrounding his death. Lindsay speaks with Ch...
If you were to ask the average Western history buff to name the most infamous desperados of the late-19th-century frontier, he would no doubt rattle off such names as Jesse James, John Wesley Hardin, and Billy the Kid. It is highly unlikely that such monikers as “Big Jack” Davis, “...
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historical persons in the American West have figured prominently in latter-day re-creations of the era.Wild Bill Hickok,Wyatt Earp, and other lawmen have frequently been portrayed, as have such outlaws asBilly the KidandJesse James. The western has always provided a rich mine for stories of...
Don’t Blame Billy the Kid’s Mom for His Outlaw Lifestyle—He Was Always Going to Be Bad Catherine McCarty Antrim did all she could to protect and raise both of her sons—Billy, the future outlaw, and Joe, the future forgotten brother. Read on Stories Killer Instinct: How One Man...