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That's what he did to Billy's friend, Tom O'Folliard," says Brothers. In later years, Maxwell refused to talk about the night Billy died. And so, the only account that we have of the famed outlaw's death is the one given by his killer.
Tom O'Folliard (1858 – December 19, 1880) was the best friend of outlaw William Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid. Both were members of the Regulators during the Lincoln County War. After the war ended, they became cattle rustlers, forming the Bonney gang with fellow outlaws Dave Rudabaugh, Charlie Bowdre, Tom Pickett, and Billy Wilson.
Dec 5, 2023 · Inside The Death Of Billy The Kid, Gunslinging Outlaw Of The Wild West. By Kaleena Fraga | Edited By John Kuroski. Published December 5, 2023. Updated December 12, 2023. On July 14, 1881, Billy the Kid died at the age of 21 after being shot in the chest in Fort Sumner, New Mexico by Sheriff Pat Garrett — though some say the story didn’t end there.
Henry McCarty, the infamous “Billy the Kid,” was buried in a plot in-between his dead friends Tom O’Folliard and Charlie Bowdre the next day at Fort Sumner’s cemetery. In his short life, Billy the Kid was reputed to have killed 21 men, one for each year of his life.
Jan 26, 2016 · How can the man pointing to the Kid be identified as Tom Folliard (the show incorrectly calls him O’Folliard)? In the tintype, these two men appear to be about the same size. But contemporaneous descriptions state Folliard (nicknamed “Bigfoot”) was more than six feet tall and 200 pounds—at least four inches taller and 60 pounds heavier ...
Check out this captivating video that delves into the life of Tom O'Folliard, the most feared outlaw in Billy the Kid's shadow. Uncover the untold stories of...
Feb 9, 2023 · No longer welcome in the embattled county seat of Lincoln, hard cases like Billy the Kid, pals Tom O’Folliard and Billy Wilson, and latecomer “Dirty Dave” Rudabaugh had to find new haunts in which to hang their hats. While several shady locales appealed to such fugitives, perhaps none checked the boxes as thoroughly as the mining camp of ...
