Posted on 11/18/2017 10:32:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
I guess Par Garrett wasn't the only one who shot him.
The Ballad of Billy the Kid - Billy Joel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7RX64gnn8
Sweet said hes 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.
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...)
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.
Back when the NFL was still alive, you could say it was the Redskins who looked like that, not the Cowboys. (But not anymore.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1URUdKuUhY
Oops. I had Billy right, but Pat is the guy on the right (as viewed by us).
That guy at the back on the left doesn’t resemble any picture of The Kid that I’ve ever seen.
I always liked that song, the album and that early period of Billy Joel’s songwriting. After “The Stranger”, his music became stale and uninteresting...
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.
See what a great and expensive college education gets you from J-School?
Yep, bupkis.
The young do have short attention spans. You would think they would want to write so well the young would stay attentive.
Billy is second on the left, Pat is far right, according to another article I read.
They look like typical guys I cross the street to get away from. Creeps never change! But I’m not seeing buck-toothed Billy. I did see him in that recent photo where he was playing baseball or some type of sport.
My folks retired to Las Cruces, over 30-years ago. Their home, which is now my sister’s, is on the East Mesa, about a mile or two from where Pat Garrett was murdered.
Garrett was not a very popular fellow, around those parts and Billy was a hero. Back then, Las Cruces didn’t exist and the town was Mesilla.
Old Mesilla is an interesting place.
LOL.
It looks like Ted Turner tried to colorize it.
So I was correct. The one they think is Billy the Kid doen’t look anything like the man identified as him playing crochet, to me at least. But then I would really need to see side by side photos of the two. Also the one they identified as probably being Billy the Kid is the only one who clearly does not have a mustache. All the rest look as though they could have some degree of a mustache. I say could because it may be blemishes or some other reason that make them appear to have mustaches., but Billy the Kid is clearly clean shaven under his nose. 8>) Interesting photo though for sure, and if I had bought that tintype it would be guaranteed that they could not substantiate it being Billy the Kid. 8>)
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