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gambler. horse thief. outlaw. 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 is alleged to have killed 21 men before he was shot and killed at the age of 21.
- The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid
Purpose. In the weeks that followed the death of Billy the...
- Brushy Bill Roberts
Brushy Bill Roberts (August 26, 1879 – December 27, 1950;...
- Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid
Plot. In 1909, near Las Cruces, New Mexico, Pat Garrett is...
- Fort Sumner, New Mexico
Fort Sumner is a village in and the county seat of De Baca...
- John Tunstall
John Henry Tunstall (6 March 1853 – 18 February 1878) was an...
- Lincoln County War
The Lincoln County War was an Old West conflict between...
- Dave Rudabaugh
David Rudabaugh (July 14, 1854 – February 18, 1886) was a...
- Doc Scurlock
Scurlock accidentally shot and killed his friend, Mike G....
- Buckshot Roberts
Andrew L. "Buckshot" Roberts (c. 1831 – April 5, 1878) was...
- Alexander McSween
Early life. Of Scottish descent, Alexander Anderson McSween...
- The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid
Apr 17, 2024 · February 29, 1908, near Las Cruces, New Mexico (aged 57) Pat Garrett (born June 5, 1850, Chambers county, Alabama, U.S.—died February 29, 1908, near Las Cruces, New Mexico) was a Western U.S. lawman known as the man who killed Billy the Kid. Born in Alabama and reared in Louisiana, Garrett left home at about the age of 17 and headed for Texas ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 12, 2023 · As explained in the show, the real Billy also grew up as Henry McCarty and over time, was known by different names, including Billy the Kid, Henry Antrim, and finally William H. Bonney. The real Billy claimed to have killed 21 people before he died at the age of 21, even if some accounts feel he didn’t kill more than nine people in his life.
The Kid assumes the alias William H. Bonney. He is arrested and jailed in Lincoln County for possessing horses belonging to cattleman John Tunstall.
Oct 13, 2023 · The MGM+ series Billy the Kid chronicles the mostly true account of the legendary Old West outlaw William H. Bonney. The Western series closely follows the rise and fall of one of the most infamous and murderous figures of the late 1800s set in the frontier-expanding United States.
- Greg Macarthur
- Senior Features Writer
The modern legend of Billy the Kid as an immortal figure of the Old West first developed within a larger cultural context of social upheaval in the late 19th and early 20th century United States. [28] Between 1897 and 1909, during the Progressive era of political activism and reform, the popular American novelist Emerson Hough wrote magazine ...
Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Henry McCarty (November 23, 1859 [1] – July 14, 1881) was better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William Harrison Bonney. He was a nineteenth century American frontier outlaw and gunman who was a participant in the Lincoln County War.
