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  1. Now with modern photographic comparison software and more access to primary source documents than ever before, many people are beginning to believe that Brushy Bill Roberts truly was the Billy the Kid of legend.

  2. Jan 31, 2022 · 204K views 2 years ago. In This video, I discuss the history and provenance of the famous Billy the Kid tintype photograph, known as the Dedrick Upham Tintype. I also discuss Roberts'...

  3. Mar 30, 2017 · Hico, Texas, has embraced ‘Brushy BillRoberts and his tall tales. by Eric Moreno March 30, 2017 Updated: August 16, 2022. One of two confirmed photographs of Billy the Kid (left), playing...

  4. Dec 25, 2018 · Brushy Bill Roberts claimed he’d been born William Henry Roberts, in Buffalo Gap, Texas. Early in life, he adopted the nickname Billy the Kid. After he escaped from prison in 1881, he’d adopted the name Oliver P. Roberts, which he lived under for the rest of his life until his death in 1950. And on the night that Pat Garrett supposedly shot ...

  5. Scanned photographs of Billy the Kid and Roberts, along with those of 150 other people, were fed into a computer using a "similarity index" to match 25 facial "landmarks". This resulted in Roberts' photo ranking 42nd (i.e.: 41 other people more closely resembled the tintype than Roberts).

  6. Brushy's niece Geneva Pittman mentioned that Brushy’s birth is recorded in the family bible as August 26, 1879. Pittman says, “I know for a fact my uncle was born in 1879 in east Texas, and Billy the Kid was supposed to have been shot by Pat Garrett in 1881 and that would have made him two years old.”.

  7. Nov 28, 2011 · this video demonstrates the undeniable sameness between four 'billy the kid' photos and four pictures of william henry 'brushy bill' roberts. the 'billy the ...

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