[Robert DeLong]

I wasn't aware that so many men wore rouge on their cheeks back then. 8>)

Sweet said he’s 95-percent convinced the man with the mustache in Abrams’ tintype is Pat Garrett. I'm assuming that he is referring to the man to the far right in the picture, though it looks to me like all 3 men in the right part of the picture could have mustaches. But no one ever says which one they believe is Billy the Kid.

[grey_whiskers]

I wasn't aware that so many men wore rouge on their cheeks back then. 8>)

I know, right? And the story says the pic was 1880, so it's too soon for it to be the Gay 90's.

(runs for exit, ducking for cover...)

[21twelve]

My guess is Billy is the tall one in back, and Pat is front and center.

IIRC in one of the movies, Pat and Billy were cordial to each other, so this photo from before the arrest and killing would seem to make sense. I don’t recall the names, but it seemed like back then a lot of the lawmen may have had questionable histories.

[Songcraft]

"I wasn't aware that so many men wore rouge on their cheeks back then. 8>)"

Back when the NFL was still alive, you could say it was the Redskins who looked like that, not the Cowboys.  (But not anymore.)

[21twelve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1URUdKuUhY

Oops. I had Billy right, but Pat is the guy on the right (as viewed by us).

[central_va]

Because journalism is dead. It so fluffy it is almost airheaded. Journalists think everyone has the attention span of a gnat. So they write like we are third graders.

[Moonman62]

It looks like Ted Turner tried to colorize it.

[Pelham]

Second from the left is the one that they think is Billy the Kid.

born Henry McCarty, AKA William Bonney