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Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney) was an American Old West gunfighter. He was a notorious outlaw during the 1870s and 1880s. Due to his high profile and violent lifestyle, he only lived to be 21 years of age. He was killed by a sheriff named Pat Garrett.
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What was billy the kid reason for using notches the answer?
Billy the Kid is said to have carved notches on his gun to keep track of the number of people he had killed. This practice was common among outlaws of the time as a way to boast about their exploits and intimidate their enemies. However, there is some debate among historians about the accuracy of this claim, as it may have been exaggerated or fabricated to enhance Billy the Kid's reputation as a notorious gunslinger.
What is Billy the Kid so famous in history for doing?
Billy the Kid occupies a romantic position in American history. He was an outlaw whose shootings and killings were confined to the bloody Lincoln County War against other outlaws and rustlers.
Did billy the kid have an education?
He went to a schoolhouse at the age of 14, this is after being taken in by a neighboring family who operated a hotel.. Billy liked reading dime novels that romanticized crime.
Why is billy the kid remembered?
Because he was in someways a peoples hero of his time,he did things to a lot of very powerful men,to hurt them ,that a lot of ordinary people back then wished they could do,he was loved by many,and is the reason for one of the countrys first most massive man hunts.but the things he did in most peoples eyes were thruely from revenge,not just cold blood!
Did Billy the Kid really get killed by Pat Garret?
alot of people say billy the kid got shot when he was 21 but i found a website that begs to differ (see "Discuss" for the web site.)
In 1949, an aging man called Ollie L. "Brushy Bill" Roberts, who lived in Hamilton County, Texas, about 100 miles southwest of the Dallas/Fort Worth area, declared that Pat Garrett had notkilled Billy the Kid that night in Fort Sumner, according to the Angelfire Internet site. Rather, Brush Bill contended, Garrett had killed another man, whose name was Billy Barlow. Brushy Bill claimed that he was the real Billy the Kid. He said that he, in fact, had escaped and fled Fort Sumner. He said he had lived in Mexico with the Yaqui Indians until things in the U. S. cooled down, then he returned to work, he claimed, as a Wild West performer, a law enforcer, and a mercenary, living under a dozen different aliases. He said that he served with Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. He married four times.
Undeniably, Bushy Bill bore certain physical resemblances to Billy the Kid. He appeared to know an exceptional amount about Lincoln in 1881, The Kid's escape from the Lincoln jail, and events in Fort Sumner. He had old acquaintances who vouched for him.
On the other hand, Brushy Bill never seemed to have explained why so many people who knew and revered Billy the Kid grieved at the funeral on July 15, 1881. Brushy Bill's version of the killing finds no support in any other contemporary account. His story sometimes appears to run contrary to known history. Photographs of Brushy Bill as a young boy do not seem to match up precisely with the one known photograph of Billy the Kid.
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What was billy the kid know for?
Being so young and being wanted for the murder of several men, apparently not all of which he murdered.
He was also known for the somewhat nonchalant attitude to dangerous situations and in taking lives of others.
He was Henry McCarty, born 0n 18 januaryNovember 1859 in New York City who became famous as as a Wild West gunfighter and outlaw only after his death at the age of 21 on 14 July 1881 at the hand of Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico. Garrett wrote about him and gave Hollywood a chance to make him a classic immortal. Billy was also known as Henry Antrim and William H. Bonney during his life as a Regulator during the range war known as the Lincoln County War. He has been portrayed as a misunderstood youth in films, both colorful and charming, when in truth he was really a callous murderer.
a western bad guy
How many times did billy the kid go to prison?
Billy the Kid killed only four men. Two (Windy Cahill and Joe Grant) in self defense; and two more (Jim Bell and Bob Olinger) when he escaped jail. He did not kill 21 people. That myth is a result of all the dime novels published about him and the Lincoln County war in New Mexico.
No he was shot down on July 14, 1881), better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William H. Bonney,
Who sings the song billy the kid?
Marty Robbins sang that song. There is no way it is related to Miley Cyrus. It's about a famous outlaw that was around a long time ago that was nicknamed "Billy the Kid."
'Billy the Kid' is also the name of another song by Bobbie Gentry.
What was billy the kids last name?
Henry McCarty. He also had an alias of Henry Antrim and William H. Bonney
Where did billy the kid kill people?
my great great great grandma used to know this kid she was his friend she told me and he killed those people in california that was so sad.
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Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. His killings are the stuff of legend; possibly between four and nine people.
some of the people that were rivals with the tunstal comapany shot john tunstal.
billy the kid was really good friends with him so he said that he would kill every person that killed him
That is why Billy the kid did what he did
Where did billy the kid become a famous outlaw?
Yes. Yes. Yes. His real name was William H. Bonnet. Now was he a cold-blooded killer??? That is the real question. Depending on what side you would have taken, BIG "Corporate" ranchers/ railroad or the "sod busters." The answer will definitely vary. He was basically a man who did what it took to survive the times and with what he had, quick-wit and a gun.
stole laundry
stole horses
joined gangs (if you call that crime) (and not for a long time)
killed nine people
escaped from jail three times
cattle rustling
(these weren't all at the same time, btw)
He actually killed 21 people. One for each year of his life. Starting at the age of 12. Just for his own enjoyment.
How long did billy the kid take?
Well That's a very hard question sir! Because I like pie and you like cookies!
Where was Billy the Kid when he was shot?
Garrett went after Billy the Kid after the Kid had escaped from jail, killing two men in the process. He arrived at Peter Maxwell's ranch on July 14, 1881 to question him about Billy's whereabouts. As Maxwell and Garrett sat in Peter's darkened bedroom in Old Fort Sumner, Billy unexpectedly entered the room. Billy didn't recognize Garrett in the poor lighting conditions and asked "¿Quien es? ¿Quien es?" (Spanish for "Who is it? Who is it?), to which Garrett responded with two shots from his revolver, the first striking Billy's heart.
Why was he named billy the kid?
It's kind of complex. He stayed an outlaw because there were too many relentless people hunting him.
His mother died when he was about 14. The next year he stole some laundry, went to jail, escaped and asked his former step-dad to help him out. The guy turned him away. Billy tried making an honest living but I guess it was too hard because he eventually got into stealing horses.
And it goes on from there.
Got info from this really great site. There is a link to it below.
Who was the better outlaw Jesse James or Billy the Kid?
Al Capone, he gathered up over 1000 people to go killing people
Where did billy the kid die at?
How was the Kid killed?
he was shot by Pat Garrett on July 14, 1881
(I, for one, think it was in the back - Billy would've killed Garrett first if he had been facing him. So I agree with Billy's good friend Deluvina Maxwell)
How old was billy the kid when he died?
He first killed Frank 'Windy' Cahill, after Windy kept throwing him around and slapping him in front of everybody when he saw Billy. It was self defense, but he was still arrested for it as the local jury determined that it was "criminal and unjustified."
