This Day in the History of a Legend Billy Was Bad 'Un (Bisbee Daily Review, Bisbee, Arizona, April 18, 1905, p. 4.) Arthur Chapman...

Below is an account, or a tall tale, of Rufe LeFors, of Texas. It was a cold day when two young men rode up in front of the ranch house,...

Below is a first-person adaptation from an interview and narrative found in Bryan Howard's True Tales of the American Southwest: Pioneer...

Recollection adapted from newspaper article referenced below. Billy often came to my father’s house when I was a kid. He was just a slim,...

On July 18, 1881, three days after Kid was killed at Fort Sumner, Lute Wilcox, the editor of the Las Vegas Optic, was quoted in an...

Dr. Henry Hoyt is a well-known character among Billy the Kid enthusiasts, due to his experiences with the Kid around 1878 in the small...

Below is a transcript of a letter from Frank Coe to photographer William Steele Dean on August 3, 1926. At the end of the letter, Coe...

Frank Coe Remembers the Kid Albuquerque Journal, 24 September 1931 “He was warm-hearted to a degree, absolutely loyal to a friend,...

Below are the recollections of Francisco "Kiko" Trujillo. He gives a version of some events that are very different from most histories....

After the Lincoln County War, Regulators Henry Brown and John Middleton took off for Kansas and arrived at the camp of Charles Francis...

Alexander Grzelachowski, called "Padre Polaco" by many, and "Chowsky" by John Chisum, was a Poland-born former Catholic priest who ran a...

Gus Gildea died in 1935. The report of his death in the El Paso Herald-Post of August 27th includes an interesting anecdote: “Texas...

Not really, but that's what Dan Quinn said, in 1895. Conspiracy theories surrounding Billy the Kid surviving the night of July 14, 1881...

Thomas Folliard (not O'Folliard, not O'Phallier, etc.) was Billy the Kid's dedicated pal; his "ride or die," as some would say, and...

From the Alamogordo News, July 5, 1928. Highway Officials Dig Up Old History At Fort Sumner Santa Fe, July 2. – The State Highway scout...

From the Alamogordo News of April 3, 1930. A Pioneer and Wonderful Character Dies By Liston M. Oak, in N.M. Highway Journal The death of...

Did Billy the Kid Have a Nephew? by Susan Stevenson and James Townsend By most accounts, Joseph McCarty was the younger brother or...

The following is an account of the pursuit and capture of Billy the Kid and company, provided by Jim East, and published in the Galveston...

"The people around Lincoln say Garrett didn't kill Billie the Kid. John Poe was with Garrett the night he was supposed to have killed the...

At some point after killing Robert Olinger and James W. Bell, and escaping imprisonment at the Lincoln county courthouse, William H....