Sallie Chisum gives the following account of Billy’s appearance: “As far as dress was concerned, he always looked as if he had just...

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...

I recently provided input in a discussion with my friend Michael Anthony Giudicissi for his podcast, All Things Billy the Kid. The...

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...

In Frederick Nolan’s The West of Billy the Kid, he states that “in 1863, while working as a teamster in Philadelphia, [Antrim] filed suit...

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.

Here's what former New Mexico governor Lew Wallace had to say regarding his experiences with Billy the Kid, taken from the Boston Sunday...

Below is an excerpt from the Clovis Evening Journal of June 3, 1935, detailing the reminiscences of Mrs. S.J. Boykin, daughter of rancher...

The following article was taken from page four of The Saline County Journal, published in Saline, Kansas on September 4th, 1879. It's...