top of page
CHASING BILLY


Rufe Meets Some Regulators
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,...
James Townsend
Dec 23, 20227 min read
346 views
0 comments


Vicente Otero Remembers July 14
Below is a first-person adaptation from an interview and narrative found in Bryan Howard's True Tales of the American Southwest: Pioneer...
James Townsend
Dec 23, 20222 min read
975 views
0 comments


Recollections of AH Aguayo
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,...
James Townsend
Dec 23, 20223 min read
323 views
0 comments


Fort Sumner Lolita: The Censored Recollections of Dr. Henry Hoyt
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...
James Townsend
Dec 15, 20222 min read
649 views
7 comments


Frank Coe Had a Picture of the Kid
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...
James Townsend
Nov 29, 20222 min read
804 views
0 comments


“Saddens Me To Discuss”
Frank Coe Remembers the Kid Albuquerque Journal, 24 September 1931 “He was warm-hearted to a degree, absolutely loyal to a friend,...
James Townsend
Nov 28, 20221 min read
221 views
0 comments


Kiko Remembers Billy the Kid
Below are the recollections of Francisco "Kiko" Trujillo. He gives a version of some events that are very different from most histories....
James Townsend
Nov 16, 202214 min read
674 views
0 comments


The Recollections of Charles Colcord
After the Lincoln County War, Regulators Henry Brown and John Middleton took off for Kansas and arrived at the camp of Charles Francis...
James Townsend
Nov 4, 20223 min read
258 views
2 comments
bottom of page