and express company clerk. At Fort Stanton in the Pecos Valley,[35] McCartystarving and near deathwent to the home of friend and Seven Rivers Warriors gang member John Jones, whose mother Barbara nursed him back to health. Billy the Kid was a 19th-century gunman who participated in the Lincoln County War. at the Truesdell family and Joseph (who may have been staying with them at
would have someone to look after them. According to the 3 Books that I have about Billy and his Life, Abrana Garcia was his Significant Other. Although both markers are behind iron fencing, a group of vandals entered the enclosure at night in June 2012 and tipped the stone over.[147]. stepson before his hanging. Instead, the Billy the Kid shown on Billy the Kid Season 1 Episode 1 . Another posse member took Tunstall's gun and killed him with a shot to the back of his head. Early in life, he adopted the nickname Billy the Kid. The Kid was known for his easygoing personality, but he wasnt afraid to draw his six-shooter when provoked. During the decades following his death, legends grew that McCarty had survived, and a number of men claimed to be him. We strive for accuracy and fairness. Miller's body was buried in the state-owned Arizona Pioneers' Home Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona; in May 2005, Miller's teeth and bones[116] were exhumed and examined,[117] without permission from the state. 1930 at the age of sixty-six. A photograph curator at the Palace of the Governors archives, Daniel Kosharek, said the image is "problematic on a lot of fronts," including the small size of the figures and the lack of resemblance of the background landscape to Lincoln County or the state in general. This was unsupported by his family until 1938, some time after his death. [119], In 2007,[121] author and amateur historian Gale Cooper filed a lawsuit against the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office under the state Inspection of Public Records Act to produce records of the results of the 2006 DNA tests and other forensic evidence collected in the Billy the Kid investigations. Letter from Governor Wallace to W.H. stepsons moved in with the Knight family who ran a butcher shop. than Billy the Kid biographer Bob Boze Bell: Billy aficionados around the
When Olinger looked up, McCarty shot and killed him. [93], McCarty, with his legs still shackled, broke into Garrett's office and took a loaded shotgun left behind by Olinger. "[86] During his short career as an outlaw, McCarty was the subject of numerous U.S. newspaper articles, some as far away as New York. decent home out of the crowded thirty square-foot cabin. This is backed up by convincing evidence: first, in a 1885
The full title of the Garrett-Upson book was, Transcript of "Certificate of Baptism", Church of St. Peter, Barclay Street, New York. [38][39], On February 18, 1878, Tunstall learned of the posse's presence on his land and rode out to intervene. [128] In 1954, western historians James D. Horan and Paul Sann wrote that McCarty was right-handed and carried his pistol on his right hip. Silver City was a booming
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"The public school where both Billy the
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Kid and Joseph attended was opened to youngsters under sixteen." In the late 1940s, an elderly Texas man known as Brushy Bill Roberts even claimed to be Billy the Kid in the flesh, but his story was largely discredited after family records revealed his birthdate to be 1879. McCarty shot and mortally wounded Cahill. After the Kid fled Arizona for
After McCarty was spotted in Silver City, his involvement with the gang was mentioned in a local newspaper. By June of 1871 Catherine was
Henry McCartys first run-in with the law came in 1875, when he assisted a local street tough known as Sombrero Jack in stealing clothing from a Chinese laundry. [27][28] McCarty became known as "Kid Antrim" because of his youth, slight build, clean-shaven appearance, and personality. Joseph and Garrett sat alone in the establishment and
Bonney".[5]. In 1867 thirty-seven year old Catherine McCarty (now single again) and her two sons, William Henry and Joseph, turned up in Indianapolis, Indiana. During the confusion, McSween was shot and killed by Robert W. Beckwith, who was then shot and killed by McCarty. first of all, Antrim was not in Chloride Flats but in Arizona at the time. Knight family while their stepfather, William Antrim, came and went. As for
Please excuse the small lettering. At about age 21, Billy the Kid was gunned down by Sheriff Pat Garrett. The two men soon began stealing horses from local soldiers. For the rest of his life Antrim didnt amount to anything more than a
The posse opened fire, killing O'Folliard; the rest of the outlaws escaped unharmed.[78][79]. The McCarty family moved with Antrim to Wichita, Kansas, in 1870. In what became known as the Lincoln County War, the Regulators assassinated Sheriff Brady and spent the next several months shooting it out with The Houses forces. When the
Unlike other Old West outlaws such as Jesse James, Cole Younger or Butch Cassidy, Billy the Kid didnt make his living as a bandit. health was deteriorating rapidly and she was bedridden for almost four
Historical Society, 1993. "[105] McCarty was given a wake by candlelight; he was buried the next day and his grave was denoted with a wooden marker. [80] Pat Garrett continued his search for McCarty; on December 23, following the siege in which Bowdre was killed, Garrett and his posse captured McCarty along with Pickett, Rudabaugh, and Wilson at Stinking Springs. After her grave was relocated when the cemetery was
The Kid stayed and visited with Joseph that night and left for
Henry hid the loot in his boarding house, but was arrested after his landlord turned him in to the sheriff. The outlaw presented in this new Epix series doesn't come off as a hardened killer. him -not even a name. Billy the Kid (TV Series 2022- ) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb Edit Billy the Kid (2022- ) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Series Directed by Series Writing Credits Series Cast Series Produced by Series Music by Mark Korven . News of the brazen escape was soon reprinted in newspapers across the country, making the Kid the most wanted man in the West. noticed he had matured and there was now a toughness about him due to his
This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Billy-the-Kid-American-outlaw, American Heritage - Billy the Kid: From Outlaw to Legend, PBS - American Experience - The Life and Legend of Billy the Kid, Billy the Kid - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). 1992, Nolan, Frederick
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After returning to New Mexico, McCarty worked as a cowboy for English businessman and rancher John Henry Tunstall (18531878), near the Rio Felix, a tributary of the Pecos River, in Lincoln County (now in Chaves County). [122] In April 2012, 133 pages of documents were provided; they offered no conclusive evidence confirming or disproving the generally accepted story of Garrett's killing of McCarty,[121] but confirmed the records' existence, and that they could have been produced earlier. married Antrim in the first place, was after she
[101][104], A few hours after the shooting, a local justice of the peace assembled a coroner's jury of six people. Corrections? [113] During the next 50 years, a number of men claimed they were Billy the Kid. Born into one of the wealthiest families in New Mexico. On November 2, 1880, Garrett was elected sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, having defeated the incumbent, Sheriff George Kimball, by a vote of 320 to 179. Find History on Facebook (Opens in a new window), Find History on Twitter (Opens in a new window), Find History on YouTube (Opens in a new window), Find History on Instagram (Opens in a new window), Find History on TikTok (Opens in a new window), Cowboys & Outlaws:The Real Billy the Kid, https://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-billy-the-kid, 9 Things You May Not Know About Billy the Kid. and Joseph recognized the Kid, although still young in appearance, they
Later someone asked Joseph what happened, Joseph remarked that he
"[58] Wallace issued an amnesty proclamation on November 13, 1878, which pardoned anyone involved in the Lincoln County War since Tunstall's murder. district in Clifton, Arizona and a year later he got a surprise visit from
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He would spend the rest of his life on the run from the authorities. Other investigators have since theorized that the Kid lived to be an old man under the alias John Miller. Millers alleged remains were exhumed in 2005, but a plan to compare his DNA to the Kids never materialized. Outside of his gunfighting days with the Regulators, his main criminal enterprise was rustling cattle on the New Mexico plains. couple months later they moved to Silver City, located in the southwest portion of
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