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To: Doctor Stochastic

I'll bite. What did Wallace promise Billy the Kid? Was this some incident while Wallace was Governor of New Mexico?


12 posted on 08/23/2004 11:30:42 AM PDT by dukeman
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To: dukeman

Basically Wallace "amnestied" everyone but The Kid over the Lincoln War. (Not that The Kid deserved amnesty; he committed other crimes besides those in the War.) Wallace was supposed to at least hear The Kid's side of things but didn't do so. I think Wallace was too busy writing Ben Hur to be an effective governor.


15 posted on 08/23/2004 11:34:30 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: dukeman

The story about Billy The Kid and Wallace was on TV recently. It was either pbs, TLC or the History Channel. One of the Investigating History-type shows. It was well-done.


17 posted on 08/23/2004 11:38:34 AM PDT by twigs
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