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Brushy Bill Roberts (August 26, 1879 [1] – December 27, 1950; claimed date of birth December 31, 1859) also known as William Henry Roberts, [2] 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 ...
- August 26, 1879
- Prospector
- American
- William H. Bonney (alias Billy the Kid, allegedly), Henry Antrim, Henry McCarty, Oliver L. Roberts
Dec 25, 2018 · Brushy Bill Roberts was a Texas outlaw who claimed to be Billy the Kid, the famous Wild West bandit who died in 1881. He said he escaped from prison and lived under a different name for 70 years, but his story is disputed and unproven.
Dec 2, 2003 · But in 1950, a Texas man named “Brushy Bill” Roberts claimed that he was the real Billy the Kid and that someone else had been shot in his place. He said he had lived incognito for decades...
Mar 30, 2017 · Brushy Bill Roberts was a paralegal who said he was the outlaw Billy the Kid, who was allegedly killed in 1881. He tried to get a pardon from New Mexico governor, but died in 1950 without proof or confirmation.
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 · Aug 27, 2016 Brad Smithfield. Did the famed gunslinger Billy the Kid fake his own death? Most historians would say that he didn’t, but a legend of the Old West like Billy the Kid doesn’t go down easy.
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.
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