At 14:23 when the Kid was after those who Killed Tunstle, I'd say Billy the Kid was right on the money, and those that he killed got what they deserved...Murfy and Dolan were the real criminals... and those kind of people(The Murfy kind) still exist today...And they called Billy the kid an outlaw???
Tunstal was his friend and probably the only father figure he ever had and he was murdered before Billy's eyes i would want justice too and that was Billy did it was not murder the men he killed were not law abiding citizens LOL come now
Plenty of Murphy/Dolan types today. Banks, Trump and most oil, cigarette corporations today. Absalutly scandeless. Wish Billy was here today to regulate.
If that is an actual Billy the Kid letter, take note of the penmanship, grammar, and vocabulary he displayed. What does it say that a guy who probably had no formal schooling past the seventh grade, if that, could be so much more capable than anyone his age over 140 years later? It's a damnation of our current degraded schools and curriculum....
Billy's letters were sent form jail. He dictated them to at least two different people. These were usually educated individuals with good penmanship. They could have been either paid or volunteers. The only person who knew about all the letters in the 1950's was William Henry Roberts.
Billy The Kid was not evil, or a desperado. He was a survivor that was put into bad situations by his own decisions, but he was no a killer. He did kill, but he hilled corrupt lawless men, that were more criminal than he, and the people that went after Billy The Kid should have been arrested themselves. Billy The Kid was a hero, not a criminal.
We know he fired into a dark room and one man when he turned the body over looked up at Garret and told him you've killed the wrong man. Garret would not admit the mistake and had him buried.
@ Sarah D it is amazing how well written the people in the 1800`s who received an education were. If you read,or listen to letters from Civil War vets, even privates,wrote so eloquently and expressed themselves so well with the pen, it puts modern H.S. grads to shame. They also were taught the classics ,i.e. the Greek Mythologies, and more. You might know of Civil war historian, Shelby Foote, who wrote a 3 part ,all encompassing narrative of the War , from dispatches to letters ,General`s histories and military campaigns . He is THE go to man on anything Civil war related. Ken Burns` PBS documentary series is full of Foote`s imput and to hear him speak ,is mesmerizing. He passed away about 10 yrs. ago, and there will never be one more well versed on the subject. I highly reccomend watching the series. I have it on DVD. Good luck, and take care.
In that time it was a well known fact that outlaws and sherrifs split the reward money .There would have been a display of Billy's body and a photograph taken . It's also interesting to note that Governor Wallace became a footnote in history and Billy the Kid became a ledgend!
Billy never claimed to be part of the James Gang. He did state that he knew the Dalton gang, but never claimed to be a part of that gang but rather that they knew each other. This should come as no surprise since cattle rustling was the black market of the 1800's and most of them had connections with other outlaws. They helped each other keep under the radar of the law and most of them were friends.
I saw a documentary many years ago,in which a colored gentleman claimed that he rode with both Jess n Billy who rode together at some point (his words)& he also said they were both present when Jess was with his baby son,as he sang to him.Interesting,but....?
@@jessieb9384 most of the time when an outlaw was killed. There would be some pictures. Where are the pictures, especially someone like Billy. It was not him.
The Dolan/Murphy store you showed, was actually the Tunstall store, after Dolan took it over, not long after McSween, and Tunstill were killed. Both are buried behind the Tunstill Store Museum. BTK did out last Garrett, he died on December 27, 1950 in Hico, TX
He wasn’t shot by Garrett there’s an old journal that belonged to one of his deputies and they said he turned the body over and realised it wasn’t the Kid, on top of that rumour also has it that the kid and Garrett become good friends and they both faked the kids death.
The most famous outlaw killed and there was no funeral, no picture taken, no public display. They could of sell tickets to see the famous outlaw and none of these things took place, kind of stranged? Wondered if they buried someone else?
They totally left out the now known fact Billy an his Mother migrated from NYC. The infamous lower east side Irish slums circa 1850s ish. His last name was different too.
Awesome narration. I learned alot from this article. Thank you for sharing this with us. So very sad your information really helped me understand the young man they called Billy the Kid. Thank you again. Ms Michal ☺☕👋💝
I went to Fort Sumner and there's a really good museum there about Billy and relics of the times, including his rifle. his purported grave is there too
The facts about Billy the Kid were not known. You're looking at this through your 2013 eye glasses. Doing research about something, prior to 1950, took great hours of research in libraries. You couldn't just go to a website to find newspaper articles. To find info about Billy you would have to go to Lincoln County Library and dig for evidence. Also, most of the books about Billy, prior to 1980, were dime store novels that weren't worth the paper they were written on.
We've been lied to bout everything else! Billy the Kid , was no exception either! Besides , they dont show us the episodes where criminals DO get away! Do they ? Imagine that....
The ending in this short Bio is where things get very interesting because in the 1950's a very old man with his horse ,dressed up in full cowboy gear ,piston and rifle claimed he was Billy the Kid and that Pat Garrett had only faked his death,because Pat Garrett was a once a good friend of Billy the Kid and had rode with the kid once in the very beginning.His name was now Brushy Bill so as not to be recognized as the Notorious Billy the Kid famous outlaw of 1870's ,he was never pardoned since the court never acknowledged him as the famous outlaw Billy the Kid of Lincoln county and he was told to go home. Brushy Bill with piercing blue eyes died a short time later but i believe Bill the Kid was in fact saved by Pat Garrett ,i also believe that even if Brushy Bill could use DNA and prove he was Billy The Kid they never would have accepted the truth since that would have mean that they meaning the law were made a fool of and were punked by Billy the Kid once again,in other words it would have meant that Billy the Kid fought the law and he won! here is where i will let the song play out .......i wake up in the morning and i raise my weary head .....i got old coat for a pillow and the earth was last night's bed.....i don't where i am going and only god knows where i been....i am Devil on the run .....a six gun lover, a candle in the wind.....i am going out in a blaze a glory!!
I've read several accounts of the Kid's story, and this follows what is known of the historical record, with the possible exception of what Billy may have been armed with when he encountered Garrett for the last time. This is one version. The other version that may be as true as we'll ever know is what witnesses said; he had a knife and was originally just going to cut a chunk of meat from a cooked roast in the kitchen when he stopped at the bedroom to visit Maxwell. Billy had a lot of friends, including Maxwell and family, and they were very bitter toward Garrett, accusing him of murdering the kid in cold blood. Garrett had no choice since it was dark, unable to verify what he may have been armed with, and all he really did was carry out the court order for Billy's death. All accounts I'm familiar with show the Dolan / Murphy enterprise to be even more ruthless than Billy ever was.
Murfy and Dolan were cold blooded killers...The Kid mostly killed out of self defence or revenge, or while trying to escape when he really shouldn't have been in jail anyway... Had that Crooked Judge kept his word and pardoned the Kid, he may have turned out different....but, can't change the past... I don't bow down to the Murfy and Dolan type people(and there are lots in todays world and no one calls them outlaws!)..., and if I were in the Kids shoes I might have done the same things...
TheFarmerfitz . Agreed. When one reads the documents of the time and the eyewitness accounts, it's pretty obvious who the real criminals were in the Lincoln County war. Though Billy did make the effort to deal with governor Wallace, he ended up being betrayed by all of officialdom, as well his own simple logic. There was no way he and his friends and employer could effectively deal with the ring of corruption they found themselves surrounded by. The Murphy Dolan bunch controlled everything going on in the region, including the Army with which they had a contract, and they were in a much better position to control and maintain their grip than Tunstall and McSween and their small, powerless faction ever was. If Billy was guilty of anything, it was in believing his skill with a gun could prevail against all the corruption involved. A lot of people are not aware of it, and I don't know enough about it, but Billy once served with the Texas Rangers. I also am in agreement we still have the same kinds of corruption today. It boggles the mind that this kind of lawlessness just won't die.
Hmm. When I was in school they taught us that billy had vanished after the drug store was set on fire and there was no sign of billy in the ashes and everyone assumed he had vanished.
@Andre McGoo i know how kids are these days. Most of them cant even change a tire or do a fucking oil change. Literally their only skills are video games and taking selfies lol
daniel creason I used to not think so but then I've almost changed my mind that Bushy might be him because he didn't look for fame just a pardon from the gov of New Mexico.
@geoffrey calligan there was substantial evidence from that guy Morrison that he was Billy the Kid. People who knew him believed he was and knew things he couldn't have known
@geoffrey calligan I don't think they would've put him in prison at 91 years old. People we're talking that Billy was still alive between 1948 and 1950. The Governor didn't want to believe him
You said it. The more and more I do research about mistaken history, I find that there are a lot of armchair researchers that claim to know something. William Henry Roberts died at the age of 91 in 1950 and was Billy the Kid.
I've never appreciated the distances between the places Billy went, like when he escaped and shot Bob, he then went 125miles to fort Sumner and those days by horse. There were no 7-11s, road lights or even roads. Would love to travel to New Mexico one day.
ScoopDogg1867 I been there to fort sumner an to Lincoln .. there are certain parts of around Lincoln and around there it still looks like you did back then
Not a bad doc at all, probably the most accurate yet made about the Kid. For anybody interested, the definitive biography is "Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life" by Robert Utley.
Jumped onto a racehorse that someone hitched up in a public area? That's like saying I ran outside, jumped in a car that happened to be a formula 1 car....😂
Yeah that happened. Billy the Kid shot and killed Frank Cahill, and as luck would have it, stole the fastest horse in the county and got the fuck out of town in a blaze
He had small hands, and big wrists, just as Billy did. He knew intimate details about the setting of the town of Lincoln, including how the courthouse was set up when he made his escape. When historians did the research they found that Roberts was indeed telling the truth about what the courthouse looked like in the 1880's, something that no one could have known. He also talked about people that helped him and when those people's kids were interviewed in the 1950's, they admitted that Roberts
Zach Perkins Decker I'm pro-Billy but I reserve "hero" for those who risk their life to save another....you're entitled to name your own hero though, we don't need to have the same definition.
The 1 thing that always made me doubt that they actually killed him is that just about every outlaw killed back n those days was laid in a coffin and a photograph taken of them! But there is no such photo of Billy, y would u not do this with possibly the most famous outlaw of all time?!?!?!?
James Latimer I think thats a very interesting point. It was usual to photograph dead outlaws,and you would think Garret would be eager to get proof that he had shot the man he was after.
I'm an armchair historian but I even know that's not what his deputy said when Patt ran out. He said that the kid wouldn't have come there and that's not the him. Patt has been largely been discredited for his lies. Interesting to read about.
Billy the kid was a hero. I don't believe he was shot that night . They berried him the following day with know one else seeing the body.. Just a little strange.. But still a hero
The internet is something else. Everyone is an expert on everything. Can't even hold a steady job and barely paying their rent or mortgage. Now you are an expert
@@raymondwashington4422 you must be jealous of intelligent people.Ibet you believed in weapons of mass destuction in Iraq and everthing else your overlords tell you.
@@randallanthony1794 i told you to watch a Jacque Fresco lecture then you'll know who i am. Frame of mind so to speak. Any lecture of his will do. It's not going to kill you. I know people hate learning anything of substance
Proved nothing. Garrett just got tipped off that Billy keeps going back to see his girlfriend. He knew that Billy was going to visit Deluvina, who identified the body and visited his grave all the time. The Kid wouldn't have been a 70 year old illiterate vagrant from Hico, Texas
So Billy the kid, wanted man, walks in the house and says hey who are these guys? I guess but doesnt seem like the actions of a man looking over his shoulder and on the run
William Henry Roberts came forward in 1950, claiming to be Billy the Kid. He even showed the scar of the bullet wound from Sheriff Brady's gun, including many other bullet wounds from other gun fights. University researchers even did facial recognitions between Roberts and Billy and said that the resemblance is amazing. Roberts, unable to read, talked in great detail about what transpired in Lincoln County, some thing he said were not even known by historians.
I think that Billy was an easy target, made a scapegoat by those in authority, and turned out to be the only man ever tried for any of the events of the Lincoln county war, which saw over 70 killings! Strange, isnt it?
"Be careful, Bob," Henry warned quietly, "I'm not hung yet." Addressing sadistic Deputy Bob Olinger after being hit, threatened and taunted repeatedly on the coach drive to Lincoln from Santa Fe, while Henry was fully shackled.
The kid was hounded from a child he had to do what he had to do just to stay alive. Back in the day Garret was a friend of the kid and he whacked Billy like he was vermin he was blamed for a lot of things that he never did and a lot of people made money on his death I really hope that he is at peace have a good en everyone Stevie
So Wyatt Earp can go on a rampage of killing anyone he feels like and he's a hero but not others who killed with as much if not more justice on their side.
@@TheBatugan77 Alright, I will. You are obviously a classy well educated, informed, intelligent person who's opinion must surely be correct. Anything else I should do?
@@TheBatugan77 Once again you are correct. Truly. I am just about to get on top of my lawn. I have quite a bit and we are just coming into grass growing season.
No one shot him pat mistook him for someone else and shot the wrong person, also people say pat and billy became good friends and they both worked together to fake Billy’s death by shooting a homeless drunk in the face with a shotgun then dressing him up in Billy’s clothes, pat was painted a hero for killing billy but later people found out that it was a lie, pat was gunned down by some men on horses as he rode towards town.
I live in S.E New Mexico and am a descendant of many people who knew the Kid. My great grandfather -who's word was his bond - has always told that when the Kid escaped from Lincoln, he went to the Baca family for help, which he got because he was well loved by Hispanics in Lincoln County. When he left the Baca's, he headed to Ft. Sumner because he had a girlfriend there, (who later had his baby). There, he WAS ambushed and killed by Pat Garrett, who was a lawless killer from way back. TRUTH!
I'm not sure if Pat Garrett killed Billy or not but I can assume that Pete Maxwell and Garrett told Billy to get out of New Mexico and never come back and they killed a young Mexican boy to pass for Billy. It's just weird that there are no death photos of such a key figure and to top it off one of the men that buried "Billy" said it wasn't him.
Billy, his mother or father weren't born in Ny. He only said that. Billy was born in Taylor county Texas, Buffalo Gap. his mother was born in Kentucky. His father Taylor Tx, the picture at his mother was his Aunt. His mother passed in 1862. Her name Mary Dunn. His father James Wild Roberts from the Civil War was looking for him. He never found Billy the kid. This is all in the Autobiography. Antrim wasn't his father. Neither was McCarty. His mother's father was William dunn Abt 1808.
At 14:23 when the Kid was after those who Killed Tunstle, I'd say Billy the Kid was right on the money, and those that he killed got what they deserved...Murfy and Dolan were the real criminals... and those kind of people(The Murfy kind) still exist today...And they called Billy the kid an outlaw???
Tunstal was his friend and probably the only father figure he ever had and he was murdered before Billy's eyes i would want justice too and that was Billy did it was not murder the men he killed were not law abiding citizens LOL come now
People can be both terrorists and heroes at the same time, depends on who's in power. Power writes history.
Plenty of Murphy/Dolan types today. Banks, Trump and most oil, cigarette corporations today. Absalutly scandeless. Wish Billy was here today to regulate.
No one that has replied to this comment so far knows how to write. Lol!!!
TheFarmerfitz The hero’s are always the outlaw. For the criminals it’s do as I say, not as I do.
Thank you so much for putting this up! I love Wild West Tech, and I'm always looking for more episodes and it's not that easy. J
If that is an actual Billy the Kid letter, take note of the penmanship, grammar, and vocabulary he displayed. What does it say that a guy who probably had no formal schooling past the seventh grade, if that, could be so much more capable than anyone his age over 140 years later? It's a damnation of our current degraded schools and curriculum....
ripperduck he was taught by the ppl that hired him. young guns haha
His parent Ade s sure he learned t wrte and read
Billy's letters were sent form jail. He dictated them to at least two different people. These were usually educated individuals with good penmanship. They could have been either paid or volunteers. The only person who knew about all the letters in the 1950's was William Henry Roberts.
Kid was educated. Before he met tunssil...
The grammar and spelling in this thread is atrocious.
Billy The Kid was not evil, or a desperado. He was a survivor that was put into bad situations by his own decisions, but he was no a killer. He did kill, but he hilled corrupt lawless men, that were more criminal than he, and the people that went after Billy The Kid should have been arrested themselves. Billy The Kid was a hero, not a criminal.
You should proof read you're comment and then edit. This comment clearly needs editing.
“Put in bad situation by his own decisions” but he’s not a criminal lol
A hero to the dems south but not us republicans. Or the dems calls us ape luver.
@@coyleigh2860 so...since You can't debate the comment, you attack the grammar and/or punctuation? Yeah ima lissen 2 U!
Coy leigh was talking bad about your grammer, and couldn't even get your right!!! Lol why are people so mean?
My husband's grandmother said that she remembered when Billy came to say goodbye befo re he left. She lived in Missouri.
Amazing
1880s
omg how old is she?
@@SimoneAF1 i think she lying
@@lamontjackson1251 Of course you do because you have to be different right?
So.. why didn't they do a death certificate, or take pictures, or have a viewing?? All other wanted outlaws were done that way. Just seems odd
I feel the same way. makes you wonder did Pat Garrett really kill the Kid, or someone else.
Because it was not him dead
We know he fired into a dark room and one man when he turned the body over looked up at Garret and told him you've killed the wrong man. Garret would not admit the mistake and had him buried.
Pat Garrett killed a billy. Just not the kid..
Even Billy the kid had better hand writing than 90% of today’s high school graduates.
@ Sarah D it is amazing how well written the people in the 1800`s who received an education were. If you read,or listen to letters from Civil War vets, even privates,wrote so eloquently and expressed themselves so well with the pen, it puts modern H.S. grads to shame. They also were taught the classics ,i.e. the Greek Mythologies, and more. You might know of Civil war historian, Shelby Foote, who wrote a 3 part ,all encompassing narrative of the War , from dispatches to letters ,General`s histories and military campaigns . He is THE go to man on anything Civil war related. Ken Burns` PBS documentary series is full of Foote`s imput and to hear him speak ,is mesmerizing. He passed away about 10 yrs. ago, and there will never be one more well versed on the subject. I highly reccomend watching the series. I have it on DVD. Good luck, and take care.
This is not completely accurate. Billys last words were "quien es?". That means who is it in Spanish.
This isnt the end. He escaped this situation. Your right about his last words, it was when he went into a dark house and saw 2 figures sat outside.
Greedy ranchers were the outlaws not The Kid !.
My only question is at 8:21, how was Billy The Kid playing with six shooters in the Fall of 1887 when he died 7/14/1881.
1877
That's what one might call an escape artist
He died an old man in 1950. Read Alias Billy the kid, by Morrison.
Blue Duck I’m going to read it and hope it’s true he lived a long life!😁
Billy died of heart attack, jesse James cousin said she was there when billy died,and he's not buried in all those 3 graves you see today,
In that time it was a well known fact that outlaws and sherrifs split the reward money .There would have been a display of Billy's body and a photograph taken . It's also interesting to note that Governor Wallace became a footnote in history and Billy the Kid became a ledgend!
Almost right. The Kid was never killed by one of his best friends “Pat”
The body was never found or displayed.
Every outlaw was photoed after death.
good point
Okay dude. Who knows it better than a RUclips commenter 140 years later..
they always displayed the body of famous people.not billy the kid.who knows @@KoenBoyful
That's because Pat Garret put someone's body off as Billy the Kid. Pat Garret was supposed to show the corpse. Instead he buried it right away.
Hog Mouth Fishing Charters a
Billy never claimed to be part of the James Gang. He did state that he knew the Dalton gang, but never claimed to be a part of that gang but rather that they knew each other. This should come as no surprise since cattle rustling was the black market of the 1800's and most of them had connections with other outlaws. They helped each other keep under the radar of the law and most of them were friends.
I saw a documentary many years ago,in which a colored gentleman claimed that he rode with both Jess n Billy who rode together at some point (his words)& he also said they were both present when Jess was with his baby son,as he sang to him.Interesting,but....?
Billy wasnt a outlaw he was a good person that took revenge on people that needed killed
Damn right
8:22 Billy the Kid died in 1881 how did he arrive in Lincoln in 1887 XD wtf ??
Took his corps up there ig
That's what I was wondering? How n the hell!!??? Must be a mistake.
Billy lived to be an old man. Garrett didn't kill Biily.
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Afraid he did sir far to many witnesses and I don't think pat to be the type of guy to lie about the situation
@@jessieb9384 most of the time when an outlaw was killed. There would be some pictures. Where are the pictures, especially someone like Billy. It was not him.
The Dolan/Murphy store you showed, was actually the Tunstall store, after Dolan took it over, not long after McSween, and Tunstill were killed. Both are buried behind the Tunstill Store Museum. BTK did out last Garrett, he died on December 27, 1950 in Hico, TX
THANKS SO MUCH FOR UPLOADING THIS IT WAS VEEEEERRRRRRYYYYY INTERESTING!
The wildest kids were always either a sheriff's kid or a preacher's kid. SPEAKS VOLUMES!!!
Henry McCarty alias billy the kid he was one of my favorite person in the old west
He wasn’t shot by Garrett there’s an old journal that belonged to one of his deputies and they said he turned the body over and realised it wasn’t the Kid, on top of that rumour also has it that the kid and Garrett become good friends and they both faked the kids death.
I believe it,
The most famous outlaw killed and there was no funeral, no picture taken, no public display. They could of sell tickets to see the famous outlaw and none of these things took place, kind of stranged? Wondered if they buried someone else?
Billy looks like his mom.
They totally left out the now known fact Billy an his Mother migrated from NYC. The infamous lower east side Irish slums circa 1850s ish. His last name was different too.
You mean it wasn't 'The Kid'?
He had several names. Henry McCarthy, William Antrim, William H. Bonney, Billy the Kid.
His stepfather's name was Antrim, a county in Ireland.
Billy was not from New York. Read Alias Billy the kid, by Morrison. If you were questioned by the law in those days, you would not tell the the truth.
Awesome narration. I learned alot from this article. Thank you for sharing this with us. So very sad your information really helped me understand the young man they called Billy the Kid. Thank you again. Ms Michal ☺☕👋💝
I went to Fort Sumner and there's a really good museum there about Billy and relics of the times, including his rifle.
his purported grave is there too
The facts about Billy the Kid were not known. You're looking at this through your 2013 eye glasses. Doing research about something, prior to 1950, took great hours of research in libraries. You couldn't just go to a website to find newspaper articles. To find info about Billy you would have to go to Lincoln County Library and dig for evidence. Also, most of the books about Billy, prior to 1980, were dime store novels that weren't worth the paper they were written on.
We've been lied to bout everything else! Billy the Kid , was no exception either! Besides , they dont show us the episodes where criminals DO get away! Do they ? Imagine that....
Brushy bill with a tear in my eye he got away
Well it's all equal now Billy is dead now either way
The ending in this short Bio is where things get very interesting because in the 1950's a very old man with his horse ,dressed up in full cowboy gear ,piston and rifle claimed he was Billy the Kid and that Pat Garrett had only faked his death,because Pat Garrett was a once a good friend of Billy the Kid and had rode with the kid once in the very beginning.His name was now Brushy Bill so as not to be recognized as the Notorious Billy the Kid famous outlaw of 1870's ,he was never pardoned since the court never acknowledged him as the famous outlaw Billy the Kid of Lincoln county and he was told to go home. Brushy Bill with piercing blue eyes died a short time later but i believe Bill the Kid was in fact saved by Pat Garrett ,i also believe that even if Brushy Bill could use DNA and prove he was Billy The Kid they never would have accepted the truth since that would have mean that they meaning the law were made a fool of and were punked by Billy the Kid once again,in other words it would have meant that Billy the Kid fought the law and he won! here is where i will let the song play out .......i wake up in the morning and i raise my weary head .....i got old coat for a pillow and the earth was last night's bed.....i don't where i am going and only god knows where i been....i am Devil on the run .....a six gun lover, a candle in the wind.....i am going out in a blaze a glory!!
All of that was in the young guns movie, but is it indeed fact?
Was he born on lower east side of Manhatten NYC? The Irish slums in those days.
I've read several accounts of the Kid's story, and this follows what is known of the historical record, with the possible exception of what Billy may have been armed with when he encountered Garrett for the last time. This is one version. The other version that may be as true as we'll ever know is what witnesses said; he had a knife and was originally just going to cut a chunk of meat from a cooked roast in the kitchen when he stopped at the bedroom to visit Maxwell. Billy had a lot of friends, including Maxwell and family, and they were very bitter toward Garrett, accusing him of murdering the kid in cold blood. Garrett had no choice since it was dark, unable to verify what he may have been armed with, and all he really did was carry out the court order for Billy's death. All accounts I'm familiar with show the Dolan / Murphy enterprise to be even more ruthless than Billy ever was.
Murfy and Dolan were cold blooded killers...The Kid mostly killed out of self defence or revenge, or while trying to escape when he really shouldn't have been in jail anyway... Had that Crooked Judge kept his word and pardoned the Kid, he may have turned out different....but, can't change the past... I don't bow down to the Murfy and Dolan type people(and there are lots in todays world and no one calls them outlaws!)..., and if I were in the Kids shoes I might have done the same things...
TheFarmerfitz .
Agreed. When one reads the documents of the time and the eyewitness accounts, it's pretty obvious who the real criminals were in the Lincoln County war. Though Billy did make the effort to deal with governor Wallace, he ended up being betrayed by all of officialdom, as well his own simple logic. There was no way he and his friends and employer could effectively deal with the ring of corruption they found themselves surrounded by. The Murphy Dolan bunch controlled everything going on in the region, including the Army with which they had a contract, and they were in a much better position to control and maintain their grip than Tunstall and McSween and their small, powerless faction ever was. If Billy was guilty of anything, it was in believing his skill with a gun could prevail against all the corruption involved. A lot of people are not aware of it, and I don't know enough about it, but Billy once served with the Texas Rangers.
I also am in agreement we still have the same kinds of corruption today. It boggles the mind that this kind of lawlessness just won't die.
yup..... That would not have gone down so smoothly if Billy had known they were there...lol
@@TheFarmerfitz today there called politicians! lol
Hmm. When I was in school they taught us that billy had vanished after the drug store was set on fire and there was no sign of billy in the ashes and everyone assumed he had vanished.
The poor one room schoolhouses in the 1800's still educated better than our public schools with endless funding.
Yep kids these days are fucking stupid. Their education is Facebook and snapchat.
@Andre McGoo i know how kids are these days. Most of them cant even change a tire or do a fucking oil change. Literally their only skills are video games and taking selfies lol
Billy didn't murder that man who slapped him around he killed that man in self defence the man was a grown and over powered Billy
Thanks for uploading this. Interesting.
Really enjoyed this, thanks for posting it!
Billy the Kid was born William Henry McCarty Jr. on November 23, 1859, in New York City. This video is fluff andf crap.
There's a lot of stuff in this video that is incorrect.
Read Alias Billy the kid, by Morrison. He was not from New York.
Isn't it funny that no one from Brady's family ever came to defend Brady's good name. That's because they know he need to reap the whirlwind.
How many of you think ( bushey bill Roberts) was billy?
Yeah I believe so, it was on Unsolved mysteries
daniel creason I used to not think so but then I've almost changed my mind that Bushy might be him because he didn't look for fame just a pardon from the gov of New Mexico.
@geoffrey calligan there was substantial evidence from that guy Morrison that he was Billy the Kid. People who knew him believed he was and knew things he couldn't have known
@geoffrey calligan I don't think they would've put him in prison at 91 years old. People we're talking that Billy was still alive between 1948 and 1950. The Governor didn't want to believe him
I think Roberts was someone younger who knew the Kid well (maybe his son) but not the Kid himself
Great story!!
Whose watching this now?
October 31 2019, I'm watching in Germany.
Wow, the old west was a tough-ass place to survive in...glad I was born in the 20th century lol!
1887? Who was your editor???
“I’ll make ya famous!”
You said it. The more and more I do research about mistaken history, I find that there are a lot of armchair researchers that claim to know something. William Henry Roberts died at the age of 91 in 1950 and was Billy the Kid.
“Murder was almost an accepted thing. Those things happened...” Wow! Fascinating documentary.
I've never appreciated the distances between the places Billy went, like when he escaped and shot Bob, he then went 125miles to fort Sumner and those days by horse. There were no 7-11s, road lights or even roads. Would love to travel to New Mexico one day.
ScoopDogg1867 I been there to fort sumner an to Lincoln .. there are certain parts of around Lincoln and around there it still looks like you did back then
I live near Lincoln and it's still a sparsely populated area in all of new Mexico
Proven fact Billy the Kid was not killed that night but Pat Garrett.
He DIDN"T die there .....he survived and died many years later in Hico, Texas.
This has been debunked many times.
Brushy Bill Roberts died in Texas in 1950. Read Alias Billy the kid, by Morrison. I believe he was BTK.
This was Pat's point of view from his book . He never tuck Billy's body back for proof of his death witch was common of the day .
Not a bad doc at all, probably the most accurate yet made about the Kid. For anybody interested, the definitive biography is "Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life" by Robert Utley.
+D. M. Bell Agree. Excellent book.
Jumped onto a racehorse that someone hitched up in a public area? That's like saying I ran outside, jumped in a car that happened to be a formula 1 car....😂
Yeah that happened. Billy the Kid shot and killed Frank Cahill, and as luck would have it, stole the fastest horse in the county and got the fuck out of town in a blaze
And this was the lie told by pat Garrett.
27:56 that voice had me in tears lmfaaaaaao
He had small hands, and big wrists, just as Billy did. He knew intimate details about the setting of the town of Lincoln, including how the courthouse was set up when he made his escape. When historians did the research they found that Roberts was indeed telling the truth about what the courthouse looked like in the 1880's, something that no one could have known. He also talked about people that helped him and when those people's kids were interviewed in the 1950's, they admitted that Roberts
R.i.p Billy your a true hero
Zach Perkins Decker amen 🙏🏻
Zach Perkins Decker I'm pro-Billy but I reserve "hero" for those who risk their life to save another....you're entitled to name your own hero though, we don't need to have the same definition.
Why wasn't there a photo of Billy in a pine box? As I understand it, they would always take a photo of the dead, especially an outlaw
They almost make Tunstil seem like he did something wrong for opening up a business.
He, didn't he was a good man that forgave the Kid and had him work for him
The 1 thing that always made me doubt that they actually killed him is that just about every outlaw killed back n those days was laid in a coffin and a photograph taken of them! But there is no such photo of Billy, y would u not do this with possibly the most famous outlaw of all time?!?!?!?
weres the pictures of him dead Billy lived along time believe me
James Latimer I think thats a very interesting point. It was usual to photograph dead outlaws,and you would think Garret would be eager to get proof that he had shot the man he was after.
I heard he lived to be old married children and died
Yes it looked like a very long life. he was poor but content I want to say
He lived to be an old man. Exactly that. There would have been pictures.
He lived out his days in Mexico among the Mexican Irish
I'm an armchair historian but I even know that's not what his deputy said when Patt ran out. He said that the kid wouldn't have come there and that's not the him. Patt has been largely been discredited for his lies. Interesting to read about.
Great to hear the real story and seeing that real picture of Charlie was fabulous
I think my thoughts don't matter because I wasn't there
Billy the Kid RIP, and for the government RIH.
The kid is a fucking heroic legend.
Happy Birthday Billy!!! I love you!!!
I like how they talk about 1887 then magically go back in time to 1881 while moving forward with the story
The outlaws have statues and yet Al Capone has nothing.
Capone murdered innocent ppl and committed to more vile crimes.
His date of death actually listed July 14, 1881 not July 18, 1881 as the video shows and states
Bastille Day??????
damn i wanna watch young gun again....
Please send me the whole movie,i didnot watch it
How can i watch this movie,i only see in you is a trealer
That guy was an outlaw, but regardless he is a legend, and his story is most unusual and extraordinary.
Outlaw? More like Robinhood.. Fuck Murphy And Dolan Gang
The walls were closing in on Billy.
He had to fake his death. Which he did.
He lived a long full life under an alias.
This person claiming to Billy, had children? DNA is needed.
“She’s my butterfly, I’m her butterfly”
That was impressive of him, riding into Lincoln in 1887, considering he had been dead for six years by that point. MEDIOCRE!
He wasn't killed. He lived a long time after that. When the body was identified the person that knew him said so at the time.
Read Alias Billy the kid by Morrison. BTK died in 1950.
They were hackin’ on him.
Interesting how there are pictures of all outlaws dead but not him. I don't believe he died that night.
Billy the kid was a hero. I don't believe he was shot that night . They berried him the following day with know one else seeing the body.. Just a little strange..
But still a hero
The internet is something else. Everyone is an expert on everything. Can't even hold a steady job and barely paying their rent or mortgage. Now you are an expert
whats that got to do with anything.because someone works he knows something?you must be middeclass
@@randallanthony1794 go sit in a corner and watch a Jacque Fresco lecture and learn something about life
@@raymondwashington4422 you must be jealous of intelligent people.Ibet you believed in weapons of mass destuction in Iraq and everthing else your overlords tell you.
@@randallanthony1794 i told you to watch a Jacque Fresco lecture then you'll know who i am. Frame of mind so to speak. Any lecture of his will do. It's not going to kill you. I know people hate learning anything of substance
@@raymondwashington4422 ok i like learning new things
Nice story, But the kid lived along life. Garret shot the wrong guy!. Proved!.
Proved nothing. Garrett just got tipped off that Billy keeps going back to see his girlfriend. He knew that Billy was going to visit Deluvina, who identified the body and visited his grave all the time. The Kid wouldn't have been a 70 year old illiterate vagrant from Hico, Texas
Garrett would have taken a photo of his body.
Read Alias Billy the kid by Morrison.
So Billy the kid, wanted man, walks in the house and says hey who are these guys? I guess but doesnt seem like the actions of a man looking over his shoulder and on the run
Rip billy the kid
amen , .rip billy and brushy bill ..could be one and the same ...
William Henry Roberts came forward in 1950, claiming to be Billy the Kid. He even showed the scar of the bullet wound from Sheriff Brady's gun, including many other bullet wounds from other gun fights. University researchers even did facial recognitions between Roberts and Billy and said that the resemblance is amazing. Roberts, unable to read, talked in great detail about what transpired in Lincoln County, some thing he said were not even known by historians.
Yoo-hoo, I’ll make you famous.
This's Stretch Definition NOT "High Definition".
Billy the kid was not shot by Pat Garret.
Please
He lived a long life . My family is from Lincoln, I'm 40 mies away . Garrett didn't kill Billy. .
I think that Billy was an easy target, made a scapegoat by those in authority, and turned out to be the only man ever tried for any of the events of the Lincoln county war, which saw over 70 killings! Strange, isnt it?
"Be careful, Bob," Henry warned quietly, "I'm not hung yet." Addressing sadistic Deputy Bob Olinger after being hit, threatened and taunted repeatedly on the coach drive to Lincoln from Santa Fe, while Henry was fully shackled.
So pat shoots and without looking at who he shot runs out saying I shot Billy he was quickly gathered and buried how do we know it was him truly
The kid was hounded from a child he had to do what he had to do just to stay alive. Back in the day Garret was a friend of the kid and he whacked Billy like he was vermin he was blamed for a lot of things that he never did and a lot of people made money on his death I really hope that he is at peace have a good en everyone Stevie
what a great documentary...i feel very close to billy and this film captures his essence,intervews,photos i loved it...
Well I suppose here in the UK we’ve got Robin Hood and the USA has its own version. RIP Billy The Kid.
I heard Mcsween refused to hold a gun because his life insurance policy wouldn’t pay out if he did.
That's what they tell us in young guns! It might even be true, given the time they were living in.
So Wyatt Earp can go on a rampage of killing anyone he feels like and he's a hero but not others who killed with as much if not more justice on their side.
Dry up, you pissant.
@@TheBatugan77
Alright, I will.
You are obviously a classy well educated, informed, intelligent person who's opinion must surely be correct.
Anything else I should do?
@@Igbon5
Yes. Get busy.
That lawn ain't gonna mow itself.
@@TheBatugan77
Once again you are correct.
Truly.
I am just about to get on top of my lawn.
I have quite a bit and we are just coming into grass growing season.
@@TheBatugan77 actually, Wyatt Earp was charged with the murder of Frank Stillwell, and others. Read a proper history book, not a comic!
No one shot him pat mistook him for someone else and shot the wrong person, also people say pat and billy became good friends and they both worked together to fake Billy’s death by shooting a homeless drunk in the face with a shotgun then dressing him up in Billy’s clothes, pat was painted a hero for killing billy but later people found out that it was a lie, pat was gunned down by some men on horses as he rode towards town.
Billy was a legend.
I live in S.E New Mexico and am a descendant of many people who knew the Kid. My great grandfather -who's word was his bond - has always told that when the Kid escaped from Lincoln, he went to the Baca family for help, which he got because he was well loved by Hispanics in Lincoln County. When he left the Baca's, he headed to Ft. Sumner because he had a girlfriend there, (who later had his baby). There, he WAS ambushed and killed by Pat Garrett, who was a lawless killer from way back. TRUTH!
he was a survivor smart guy that had his mom and a few other things gone right he would've been different all together.
I'm not sure if Pat Garrett killed Billy or not but I can assume that Pete Maxwell and Garrett told Billy to get out of New Mexico and never come back and they killed a young Mexican boy to pass for Billy. It's just weird that there are no death photos of such a key figure and to top it off one of the men that buried "Billy" said it wasn't him.
Billy, his mother or father weren't born in Ny. He only said that. Billy was born in Taylor county Texas, Buffalo Gap. his mother was born in Kentucky. His father Taylor Tx, the picture at his mother was his Aunt. His mother passed in 1862. Her name Mary Dunn. His father James Wild Roberts from the Civil War was looking for him. He never found Billy the kid. This is all in the Autobiography. Antrim wasn't his father. Neither was McCarty. His mother's father was William dunn Abt 1808.
What’s the music called at the end? :D
Is that really how he died
Died from heart failure in 1931
Billy the kid died of a hart attack. from old age. Pat Garret shot dead the wrong Billy. His deputy even said so.!.
Read Alias Billy the kid, by Morrison. I believe Brushy Bill was Billy the kid.
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