Billy the Kid

Billy The Kid: The one and only authentic photograph of Billy The Kid
Unfortunately, the image is badly scratched and spotted due to bad handling over the years.  

In legend, Billy The Kid has been described as a vicious and ruthless killer, an outlaw who died at the age of twenty-one, not before raising havoc in the New Mexico Territory. It was said he took the lives of twenty-one men, one for each year of his life, the first one when he was just twelve years old. He was a rebel without a cause who killed without reason, other then to see his victims kick. These and many more accusations of callous acts are examples of the myth of Billy the kid. In real form, the Kid was not the cold-blooded killer he has been portrayed as, but a young man who lived in a violent dog-eat-dog world, where knowing how to use a gun was the difference between life and death. As you read the biography keep in mind that Billy the Kid lived in a very different, lawless, and corrupted time, so don't judge him by today’s morals and laws.




American Outlaw Billy the kid lived a life of crime,and cold blooded murder. Or did he? Times where different back in the old west. Some would say Billy the Kid defended and stood his ground against a corrupted government, and small lincoln town run by criminals.�

• Billy The Kid
  
• $500 Reward
  
• I will pay $500 reward to any person or persons
  
• who will capture William Bonny, alias The Kid, and
  
• deliver him to any sheriff of New Mexico.
  
• Satisfactory proofs of identity will be required.

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Billy The Kid's Tombstone was stolen in the late 1950's. Billy The Kid was said to be shot in the back by Pat Garrett. The heading on the tombstone reads PALS, Ash Upson, one of the men greatly responsible for the myth of Billy the kid, gave this date when he wrote majority of Pat Garrett’s biography The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid and might I add that the November 23rd date happens to be Upson's birth date too -coincidence? Billy The Kid‘s exact date of birth and place is not known, and historians and biographers today are still trying to solve the mystery.


William Bonney"Billy The Kid"
23rd November 1859 - 15th July 1881.
Outlaw shot in the back by Pat Garrett.
Old Fort Sumner Cemetery, Fort Sumner, New Mexico.