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This free stock footage clip is published by the World Moving Image Film Archives Society in Washington DC USA, and is part of the American rare and historical films collection. Vintage Film. Born on New York City’s East Side, Billy as a child migrated with his parents to Kansas; his father died there, and the mother and her two boys moved to Colorado, where she remarried. The family moved to New Mexico, and, in his early teens, Billy fell into a career of thievery and lawlessness, wandering throughout the Southwest and northern Mexico, often with gangs. In December 1880 he was captured by Sheriff Patrick Floyd Garrett and stood trial for murder in Mesilla, New Mexico, in April 1881; he was found guilty and was sentenced to hang. He escaped jail on April 30, however, killing two deputies, and remained at large until tracked down and ambushed by Garrett, who shot him dead on the evening of July 14 at the ranch home of Pete Maxwell. Billy the Kid’s grave is in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Vintage Film. Billy the Kid, born Henry McCarty (September 17 or November 23, 1859 – July 14, 1881), also known by the pseudonym William H. Bonney, was an outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West who killed eight men before he was shot and killed at the age of 21.
Cause of death: Gunshot wound
Relatives: Joseph McCarty (brother)
Height: 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) at age 17
Parent(s): Patrick McCarty; Catherine Devine; William Antrim (stepfather) Vintage Film. Billy the Kid, born Henry McCarty, also known by the pseudonym William H. Bonney, was an outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West who killed eight men before he was shot and killed at the age of 21. He also fought in New Mexico's Lincoln County War, during which he allegedly committed three murders. Vintage Film. Born: 1859, New York, New York, United States
Died: July 14, 1881, Fort Sumner, New Mexico, United States
Full name: Henry McCarty
Buried: July 15, 1881, Old Fort Sumner Cemetery and Chamber of Commerce, New Mexico, United States
Movies: Purgatory
Nicknames: Henry Antrim, Henry McCarty, Kid Antrim, William H. Bonney, William McCarty. After more than two years on the run, Billy was arrested by Lincoln Sheriff Pat Garrett, a man Billy had previously befriended before Garrett became a lawman. In April 1881, Billy was found guilty of the murder of Sheriff Brady and was sentenced to hang. There was just one problem: all the grave markers in the Fort Sumner cemetery were washed away in a 1904 flood. If the real Billy the Kid is buried in New Mexico, no one knows where the body -- or the body of his mother -- is actually located. Brushy Bill is buried 20 minutes outside of Hico in Hamilton, Texas. Bonhams : An historic Colt single action army revolver attributed to famed outlaw William H. 'Billy the Kid' Bonney. Serial no. He played a prominent role in a frontier feud. Billy the Kid first earned his reputation as a gunslinger in 1878, when he participated in a bloody frontier war in Lincoln County, New Mexico. ... Dolan and Murphy's outfit—known as “The House”—had long held a monopoly over the dry goods and cattle trades in Lincoln County. zZd1fi-P62k |