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Mar 30, 2017 · Roberts died a month later, and neither Billy the Kid nor Brushy Bill Roberts ever received a pardon. Since that time, debates have raged over Roberts’s claims, and whether he was truly one...
- The Emergence of Brushy Bill Roberts
- Was Brushy Bill Roberts Actually Billy The Kid?
- The Debate Rages on
Almost 70 years after Billy the Kid’s death (or alleged death, according to some), a man named Joe Hines made an interesting confession to his lawyer, William Morrison. In the midst of attempting to claim land belonging to his deceased brother, Hines told his lawyer that he was, in fact, Jesse Evans, a famous Wild West outlaw who had disappeared af...
While there were doubts about Brushy Bill Roberts’ credibility – a Roberts family Bible listed Oliver Roberts’ birth date as sometime in 1879, an impossibility if he was truly Billy the Kid, who died in 1881 – many believed his story. Supporters claimed that if Oliver Roberts was an identity he had simply adopted, he wouldn’t have cared about the b...
The debate over the validity of Brushy Bill Roberts’ claim has persisted into this century. In 2015, television personality Bill O’Reilly mentioned Brushy Bill Roberts in a book of his own and claimed that the amount of evidence supporting Roberts’ claim outweighed the amount that didn’t. Though numerous attemptshave been made, the most recent in 2...
Over the last century, at least two men surfaced claiming to be Billy the Kid – Miller and Ollie P. “Brushy Bill” Roberts of Hico, Texas. Those stories presuppose that Garrett killed the wrong...
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Brushy Bill Roberts (August 26, 1879 – December 27, 1950; claimed date of birth December 31, 1859) also known as William Henry Roberts, Ollie Partridge William Roberts, Ollie N. Roberts, or Ollie L. Roberts, was an American man who attracted attention in the late 1940s and the 1950s by claiming to be Western outlaw William H. Bonney, (who ...
Apr 9, 2017 · Legend has it that William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, died at the tender age of 21. The infamous New Yorker, whose Wild West antics ranged from stealing food to killing at least eight men, was supposedly gunned down at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, in July 1881. But legends don’t die so easily.
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Apr 17, 2024 · Billy the Kid, American outlaw who became one of the most notorious gunfighters of the American West. Although he claimed to have killed 21 men, the actual number is likely less than 10. At about age 21, he was gunned down by Sheriff Pat Garrett. Learn more about Billy the Kid’s life.
Sep 21, 2021 · Storied Billy the Kid claimants 'Brushy' Bill Roberts of Hico, TX and John Miller of Prescott, AZ will finally get their day in court to prove their claim to being legendary outlaw Billy the...
