[Shooter 2.5]

Someone was always bragging that they were a famous outlaw. I remember an article that someone claimed to be Frank James. I believe there was also a lame attempt to say that Jesse James wasn't killed at the time of the Ford shooting.

Just to add a little history tidbit, Billy wasn't left handed.

[Ligeia]

Sheriff Pat Garrett's a liar, is that it, NYT? Don't be hard on Jayson Blair and Howell Raines; everybody does it. Isn't that the desired reaction to this story?

[Clinging Bitterly]

>> The New York Times

Well Sir G, the source has to count for something.

But when I was growing up, there was an old timer in my neighborhood in Lane County Oregon who, in his final days, confessed to being Billy the Kid. I think he was over 100 years old, and this was probably around 1970.

I think there were probably others who made such confessions during that time too. I guess we'll never know for sure.

Dave in Eugene

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

I read somewhere that "Brushy Bill" was far too young to have been Billy the Kid.

[joesnuffy]

NYTimes is that stil around?

[RightWhale]

a lawman on a par with Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, even Matt Dillon.

Matt Dillon?

[Free ThinkerNY]

Bill Richardson of New Mexico, who has offered state aid for the investigation and a possible pardon that an earlier New Mexico governor had once promised to the Kid for a murder he committed.

Democrats seem to love pardoning criminals. It makes them feel good to be bad.

[Fiddlstix]

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[hardhead]

A fascinating subject, western archaeology. In fact, the west grows more fascinating every day for me. Always have been a western movie fan but living here gives me some exciting side trips to Hole-in-the-Wall, Sand Creek Draw (the site of the Sand Creek massacre), the Cody Museum, and on. Fort Washakie, which was a Buffalo Soldier outpost, is within 15 miles. They say that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction and I'm beginning to discover that.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

At the WHITE'S MUSEUM outside Calsbad Caverns, they had a newspaper article on how a young man named MUCHACHO was shot by Garrett and thought to be Billy the Kid.
In a western magazine years ago it was claimed that the origional grave of Billy the Kid was washed away in a flood of the Pecos river. A new stone was carved and set in the middle of the cemetery to keep the tourists happy.



Others rumored to have escaped their fate and lived a long happy life in a far away land....
Fletcher Christian
David Crockett
Butch Cassidy
John Wilkes Booth
William Quantrill
Jesse James

[jdege]

I'm descended from the Bonneys, and my grandmother always insisted that Billy the Kid wasn't William Bonney, but some non-relative who'd fostered or boarded with the Bonney's for a short time, and who used William Bonney's name (who was about the same age) when he took a life of crime.

What I've learned of his life makes it easy to believe that he wasn't really named William Bonney - but if he ever boarded or fostered with the Bonneys it doesn't show up in any history of the period I've ever read.

(The Bonneys were Mayflower descendents and early travellers on the Oregon Trail.)

[Lancey Howard]

Cool stuff.

[wardaddy]

This should be interesting.

[stainlessbanner]

Good post!