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Billy The Kid
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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