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Billy the Kid
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Billy the Kid

Enhanced photo of Billy the Kid, c. 1880
Born
Henry McCarty
September 17 or November 23, 1859 (disputed)
Manhattan, New York City
Died
July 14, 1881 (aged 21)
Fort Sumner, New Mexico
Cause of death
Gunshot wound
Resting place
Old Fort Sumner Cemetery
34°24′13″N 104°11′37″W
Other names
William H. Bonney, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim
Occupation
Cattle rustlercowboy and ranch handgamblerhorse thiefoutlaw
Height
5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) at age 17[1]
Weight
135 lb (61 kg) at age 17[1]
Parent(s)
Father: Patrick McCarty
Stepfather: William Antrim
Mother: Catherine Devine
Relatives
Joseph McCarty (brother)
Billy the Kid (born Henry McCarty September 17 or November 23, 1859 – July 14, 1881, also known as William H. Bonney) was an American Old West outlaw and gunfighter who killed eight men before he was shot and killed at age 21.[2][3] He took part in New Mexico's Lincoln County War, during which he allegedly took part in three murders.
McCarty was orphaned at age 13. The owner of a boarding house gave him a room in exchange for work. His first arrest was for stealing food at age 16 in late 1875. Ten days later, he robbed a Chinese laundry and was arrested, but he escaped only two days later. He tried to stay with his stepfather, and then fled from New Mexico Territory into neighboring Arizona Territory, making him both an outlaw and a federal fugitive.
After murdering a blacksmith during an altercation in August 1877, Bonney became a wanted man in Arizona Territory and returned to New Mexico, where he joined a group of cattle rustlers. He became a well-known figure in the region when he joined the Regulators and took part in the Lincoln County War. In April 1878, the Regulators killed three men, including Lincoln County Sheriff William J. Brady and one of his deputies. Bonney and two other Regulators were later charged with killing all three men.
Bonney's notoriety grew in December 1880 when the Las Vegas Gazette in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and The Sun in New York City carried stories about his crimes.[4] Sheriff Pat Garrett captured Bonney later that month. In April 1881, Bonney was tried and convicted of the murder of Brady, and was sentenced to hang in May of that year. He escaped from jail on April 28, 1881, killing two sheriff's deputies in the process and evading capture for more than two months. Garrett shot and killed Bonney—aged 21—in Fort Sumner on July 14, 1881. During the following decades, legends that Bonney had survived that night grew, and a number of men claimed to be him.[5]

Liberty Tree

Because if this photo it was said that he was left handed. It was later discovered that the negative had been reversed and he was in fact right handed.

bahmer

Those old time gun slingers sure didn't live to old age did they.
Maybe those durn Marines should read more about what happens to gamblers in the old west.
It could happen again. Quick draw badbobby at the poker table.

badbobby Loc: texas

they aren't in danger of losing their lives bahm
but they have already been proved to be cheaters and pikers at the poker table
even though the cheating does them no good
their small brains(they failed the Navy's written exam you know)
just can;t take advantage of their poor attempts at cheating
but
what do you expect
after all they are only Marines

bahmer

I guess that they have to be happy that they don't live in the days of the old west.
If they did there would be far fewer of them than now are.