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Nov 19, 2015 · by Mark Boardman | Nov 19, 2015 | Uncategorized. Talk about a rare photo. Billy the Kid’s friend Charlie Bowdre carried in his pocket a photo of his wife Manuela and him. That’s where it was on December 23, 1880 when a posse led by Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett gunned Bowdre down at Stinking Springs.
Bowdre married a twenty-five-year-old Mexican woman, Manuela Herrera, some months before his death. Manuela was a sister to Doc Scurlock's wife, María Antonia Miguela Herrera, known as Antonia. The fact that he was recently married when he died perhaps suggests that he would have been less likely to have been involved in the gang's activities ...
Sep 2, 2022 · by Bob Boze Bell | Sep 2, 2022 | Classic Gunfights, Features & Gunfights. Billy the Kid vs. Joe Grant – An Eyewitness Revelation. January 10, 1880. “William Bonney” shows up on the 1880 census, living next door to Charlie Bowdre and his wife, Manuela, in the abandoned Indian Hospital at Old Fort Sumner. Bob Hargrove’s saloon in Old Fort ...
Manuela Herrera (born 1853) was the Mexican wife of American Wild West outlaw Charlie Bowdre. They met while the Lincoln County Regulators were in hiding in Mexico during the Lincoln County War, and they married; however, their wedding dance was interrupted when Billy the Kid announced that the...
Dec 29, 2023 · Based on available evidence, Manuela Herrera was not the wife of Charlie Bowdre or the young Mexican woman that appeared standing next to him in the c1880 blood-stained ferrotype. All evidence points to Manuela Gonzales.
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Dec 9, 2013 · 7 Charlie Bowdre & His Wife, Manuela Taken in 1880 by Furlong of Las Vegas, New Mexico, this photograph was taken off Charlie’s body by Pat Garrett (note the blood stains). Charlie was about 32 when he died.
Apr 23, 2012 · Later that day, Billy the Kid and the rest of the gang surrendered. Charlie Bowdre was dead at age 32. The image at the top of the page is of Charlie and his wife Manuela, and was supposedly taken from his bullet-ridden corpse, with a bloodstain still visible.
