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

The following is an Article from the Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican, July 22, 1878. From the Grant County Herald TROUBLES IN LINCOLN What An...

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...

Mesilla Independent June 14, 1879 Examination of Frank Coe on Writ of Habeas Corpus A judicial examination into matters sometimes places...

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...

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...

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...

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

An interesting excerpt from the Denton Record Chronicle, June 23, 1963, concerning John W. Poe’s informant in White Oaks: A Tipsy Texian...

This slightly paraphrased interview is a “distilled” version of that found interspersed in the piece published in the Las Vegas Gazette...

I found an interesting account involving Joe Grant and the Kid’s killing of Grant that I had never read before. This recollection is...

In May and June of 1878, there were (at least) two editorial accounts of the killing of Frank McNab and the subsequent skirmish in the...

An account of the McSween house fire and shootout, including a powder keg explosion and mention of Susan's piano. Taken from the Weekly...

From the Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican, May 18, 1878. Lincoln, NM. May 3, 1878. Dear News: Since I wrote you there have been some further...

You can't believe everything you read in the papers. For instance, take this bit from the El Paso Times of January 25, 1894, out of El...

From a somewhat lengthy article titled "The Career of Pat Garrett," which appeared in the Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia, on March...

A story related by an old-timer in 1930. Could this really have been one of the notches on the Kid's gun? “Billy the Kid As Remembered By...

From the El Paso Herald Post, April 23, 1937 p.3.