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Very interesting. Written in 1882, the year after Billy the Kid's death, the writing style is so very different from today's style of writing. Billy, aka William H. Bonney, was born as Henry McCarty in New York. His parents migrated west and after his father died, his mother remarried a man who did not care for her children.
William Henry McCarty Jr., aka Billy the Kid, born in 1859, was killed in an ambush by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, in 1881. Wikimedia Commons. Lincoln County, New Mexico Sheriff Pat Garrett would later claim that on the night he shot down Billy the Kid, the notorious outlaw was holding a gun.
HOME Back to Biography. Introduction. William H. Bonney alias Billy the Kid is probably the most misunderstood historical figure of the Old West. He was not a cold-blooded killer, nor was he a robber of trains or banks. Instead he was a gunfighter in a feud between two factions in which both sides stole from each other and killed.
During the summer of 1881 in a small New Mexican village, Garrett shot and killed the notorious outlaw, William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid. Due to the first publisher's inability to widely distribute this book beginning in 1882, it sold relatively few copies during Garrett's lifetime.
Oct 11, 2015 · They offered firsthand information about one of the most sensational events in the history of the American West — the double cop killing and jailbreak committed on April 28, 1881, by a skinny, buck-toothed young man named William H. Bonney, who was known by various aliases during his brief life, but in death would be known forever as Billy ...
Territory of New Mexico vs. William Bonney, alias “Kid”, alias William Antrim, Doña Ana County Criminal Case Nos. 531 and 532, (1878). Reward for the arrest of Billy the Kid, December 3, 1880. TANM, Roll 21, Frame 565. Lew Wallace authorization of $500 reward for the capture of William Bonney, December 13, 1880. TANM, Roll 99, Frame 172.
Mar 8, 2023 · Billy the Kid: An Autobiography by Daniel A. Edwards. In 1882 a notorious outlaw and a childhood friend of Billy the Kid was released from prison where he had been serving time for killing a Texas Ranger. His freedom finally secured, the outlaw disappeared and was never heard from again. Never, that is, until 1948 when he came out of hiding ...
