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American Wild West Figure. He gained notoriety by being a part of the American Wild West era, and he had legends, myths, and lies told about his short lifetime. Born into a poor Irish Catholic household in the slums of New York City as Henry McCarty, he became famous as the gunslinger Billy, the Kid or simply the Kid....
Jul 10, 2021 · Discover Grave of Billy the Kid in Fort Sumner, New Mexico: The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.
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.
Not everyone believes that Billy the Kid was shot dead and buried in Fort Sumner, New Mexico -- but enough people do to make his grave one of the most visited of all Wild West burial plots. An outlaw's fate: bumped to second billing on his own historical sign.
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May 14, 2020 · Western outlaw Billy the Kid met his demise at about 12:30 a.m. on July 14, 1881, when he went to his friend Pete Maxwell’s home in Fort Sumner, New Mexico in search of a slice of beef for...
Legendary outlaw Billy the Kid was killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett and buried in Fort Sumner. Billy the Kid, also known as Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim and William H. Bonney was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and gunman who participated in the Lincoln County War.
The most talked-about exhibit in the Billy the Kid Museum is its full-size, accurate replica of Billy the Kid's grave. Tim said that his grandfather built it around 1960, back when Billy's original tombstone had been stolen and was missing.
Jul 10, 2024 · Billy the Kid’s grave is in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. As a child, Billy the Kid went under the name of Henry McCarty. Scholarly opinion is divided over whether that or William H. Bonney, Jr. (the name he used later, as in the trial), was his true name.
Billy The Kid's death site is located behind the Bosque Redondo Memorial on Billy The Kid Road in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, in the Fort Sumner Historic Site.
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