Billy The Kid

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 Billy the Kid, real name William H. Bonney, Jr., original name Henry McCarty?, (born November 23, 1859/60, New York, New York, United States died July 14, 1881, Fort Sumner, New Mexico), one of the most notorious gunfighters of the American West, reputed to have killed at least 27 men before being shot and killed at the age of 21.



Billy was born on the East Side of New York City and went to Kansas with his parents when he was a youngster; his father died there, and the mother and her two sons travelled to Colorado, where she remarried. Billy's family relocated to New Mexico, where he began a life of thieving and lawlessness in his early teens, roaming throughout the Southwest and northern Mexico with gangs. He was apprehended by Sheriff Patrick Floyd Garrett in December 1880 and tried for murder at Mesilla, New Mexico, in April 1881, where he was found guilty and put to death.He escaped jail on April 28, killing two officers, and remained at large until Garrett tracked him down and ambushed him on the evening of July 14 at Pete Maxwell's ranch home. The burial of Billy the Kid is located near Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

Billy the Kid used the alias Henry McCarty as a child. Scholars are split on whether it or William H. Bonney, Jr. (the name he used afterwards, including during the trial) was his real name. Another theory is that Billy the Kid was actually Ollie L. ("Brushy Bill") Roberts, who escaped and lived in Mexico and the United States Southwest, where he rode in Wild West performances before dying in Hico, Texas in 1950.

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