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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...
Nov 7, 2005 · 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...
Aug 27, 2016 · According to most sources, the infamous outlaw met his end at the tender age of 21 in the summer of 1881, when he was gunned down by Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. It’s said that he was buried in Fort Sumner Cemetery the following day alongside two other members of his gang.
It’s a story recounted in both “Young Guns II” and O’Reilly’s “Legends & Lies”: In the late 1940s, a man named Ollie Roberts a.k.a. Brushy Bill came forward claiming to be Billy the Kid.
Apr 17, 2024 · Another hypothesis is that Billy the Kid was in fact Ollie L. (“Brushy Bill”) Roberts, who escaped, lived in Mexico and the U.S. Southwest, rode in Wild West shows, and died in 1950 in Hico, Texas.
Oct 8, 2018 · Roberts, who picked up the nickname “Brushy Bill” while riding scout for a stagecoach line in the Black Hills of Idaho, had the look, the size, the eyes and even, according to those who knew the outlaw, the same laugh as Billy the Kid.
Apr 9, 2017 · Ollie “Brushy Bill” Roberts claimed to be legendary outlaw Billy the Kid. (Getty Images/Wikipedia) Bettmann Archive. Legend has it that William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, died at the tender age of 21.
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