Billy the Kid
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Henry McCarty, alias William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, was an American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West who was linked to nine murders. He was solely responsible for four of them,
Portrait attributed to Ben Wittick, c. 1880
Henry Hooker, one-time employer of Billy the Kid, at his Sierra Bonita Ranch in southeast Arizona
John Henry Tunstall, 1872
Dick Brewer, c. 1875
Pat Garrett
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Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett was an American Old West lawman, bartender, and customs agent known for killing Billy the Kid. He was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, as well as Doña Ana County
Billy the Kid
…grew in December 1880 when the Las Vegas Gazette, in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and The Sun, in New York City, carried stories about his crimes. Sheriff Pat Garrett captured Bonney later that month. In April 1881, Bonney was tried for and convicted of Brady's murder and was sentenced to hang in May of that year…
Garrett circa 1903
Cover of Garrett's book
Portrait of Pat Garrett (c. 1907) from The Story of the Outlaws
Memorial marking spot where Garrett was killed