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Billy The Kid

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Billy Is Believed To Have Been Born In... NYC
Billy Is Believed To Have Been Born On... November 23rd, 1859
Billy's Real Name Is... William Henry Bonney or Henry McCarty
Billy's Mother And Believed Father Are... Catherine & William
Billy's Mother And Believed Father Got Married In... New Mexico in 1873
When Billy Was 14... his mother died and his father abandoned him
Billy Escaped Jail In 1875 By... worming his way up the jailhouse chimney
Billy's First Job In South Arizona Was... a ranch hand and shepard
In 1877, Billy Became... a civilian teamster at Fort Grant Army Post, hauling logs from a timber camp to a sawmill
Billy Received The Nickname "Kid" When... he was working at Fort Grant Army Post
Billy's First Confirmed Murder Was... a blacksmith at the Army who was harassing Billy
After He Murdered His First Confirmed Victim In Arizona, He Escaped Into... New Mexico Territory (Lincoln County, 1877)
When Arriving To New Mexico, Billy Was Hired As... a cattle guard
John Tunstall a young English cattle rancher, banker, and merchant who hired Billy
Alexander McSween John Tunstall's partner (prominent lawyer)
Lincoln County Cattle War a conflict between the established town merchants (Irish Catholics) and the ranchers (English Protestants)
John Tunstall's Death caught on an open range on February 18 of 1878 (death enraged Billy and the other ranch hands)
Regulators group formed by the ranchers led by Richard "Dick" Brewer
Regulator's Mission to hunt down members of the posse that murdered Tunstall
Sheriff William J. Brady first man killed by the Regulators alongside his deputy
Buckshot Roberts shot and killed Regulator leader Brewer, and was then killed by the remaining Regulators
After Brewer Died, The Regulator Became... Billy (under indictment for the Brady killing)
Billy And His Gang Spent Several Months Hiding At... McSween's house
Billy And His Gang Were Trapped At... McSween's house on July 15th of 1878, by some of Brady's men
After A Five-Day Siege, McSween's House Was... set on fire, causing Billy and the other regulators to flee
McSween's Death McSween was shot down while fleeing the blaze (essentially marked the end of the Lincoln County Cattle War)
Billy's Death Billy walked into a room of his friend Pedro Maxwell, and was shot by a former friend named Pat Garrett
Pat Garrett's Post-War Life after the war, Garrett became a bartender who was elected for sheriff of Lincoln County in November of 1880
Pat Garrett's Original Plan To Catch Billy Garrett sent out a posse to find and arrest the kid, but Billy subsequently escaped after he was caught
Pat Garrett's Final Plan To Catch Billy Garrett sent out two deputies to question Pedro Maxwell, a friend of Billy's, and ultimately was able to find and kill him
Billy's Burial Billy was buried in Fort Sumner's old military cemetery, between to fallen "Regulator" companions
Created by: abievans
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