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gambler. horse thief. outlaw. Henry McCarty (September 17 or November 23, 1859 – July 14, 1881), alias William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, was an American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West who is alleged to have killed 21 men before he was shot and killed at the age of 21.
Apr 17, 2024 · Pat Garrett (born June 5, 1850, Chambers county, Alabama, U.S.—died February 29, 1908, near Las Cruces, New Mexico) was a Western U.S. lawman known as the man who killed Billy the Kid. Born in Alabama and reared in Louisiana, Garrett left home at about the age of 17 and headed for Texas and the life of a cowboy and buffalo hunter.
The Kid assumes the alias William H. Bonney. He is arrested and jailed in Lincoln County for possessing horses belonging to cattleman John Tunstall.
Apr 9, 2015 · On this day, April 9, in 1881, the outlaw who was born Henry McCarty before adopting the alias William H. Bonney — better known as Billy the Kid — was found guilty of murdering the sheriff of...
Miguel Antonio Otero, the first governor of the territory, knew William Bonney, and was the first Mexican-American author to write about him. Otero's book, The Real Billy the Kid: With New Light on the Lincoln County War , was published in 1936.
May 2, 2007 · He was using the name William H. Bonney, but everyone called him “Kid.” No more than 20 years old, probably younger, Kid had experienced a lot of action in his short life. The Lincoln County War was over, and he was wandering about eastern New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle, making a nuisance of himself with the cattlemen of the area.
May 18, 2018 · People. History. U.S. History: Biographies. Billy the Kid. views 3,704,984 updated May 18 2018. Billy the Kid. William H. Bonney, known as Billy the Kid (1859-1881), was the prototype of the American western gunslinger. He was the youngest and most convincing of the folk hero-villains.
