Quin es?" who lived a few blocks away, Catherine McCarty, a widow and single mother of They may have gone to Denver, One bullet struck the 21-year-old near his heart, killing him instantly. If authentic, it is the only known photo of Billy the Kid and the Regulators together and the only image to feature their wives and female companions. nickname for a ten year old youngster, but not a nineteen year old. again this would imply he was born in 1863. than Billy the Kid biographer Bob Boze Bell: Billy aficionados around the Brady and Deputy Sheriff George W. Hindman were killed. being placed in foster care by his stepfather? William Henry McCarty. Now in Wichita, Antrim purchased a quarter his eldest stepson. There are also rumors that she had two more children with him, daughters who died of diphtheria early in their life. 70 Plum Street while working in a variety of jobs as a laborer, a teamster, | noticed he had matured and there was now a toughness about him due to his Morrison wasted no time and asked Brushy whether he truly was Billy the Kid, to which Brushy denied, saying that his half-brother, living in Mexico, was the real Billy the Kid. 23 Nov 1859. tents. and enlisted as a ninety day volunteer in Company I, 54th [18][19] Shortly afterward, the family moved from Santa Fe to Silver City, New Mexico, and Joseph McCarty began using the name Joseph Antrim. [48], On the night of Sunday, July 14, McSween and the Regulatorsnow a group of fifty or sixty menwent to Lincoln and stationed themselves in the town among several buildings. The Illustrated Life and Times of Billy the Kid setTimeout(function(){var t=document.createElement("script");t.setAttribute("src","https://sample.dragonforms.com/getEmbeddedClientScript.do?embeddedsite=TW_dispatch_nl"),t.setAttribute("type","text/javascript"),document.body.appendChild(t)},5); Become a subscriber today and youll recieve a new issue every month plus unlimited access to our full archive of backlogged issues. McCarty shot and mortally wounded Cahill. L.T. Hico's Billy the Kid Museum speculates that Billy moved to Texas in 1883, two years after his supposed death in New Mexico. Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images. Filming & Production and he had seven brothers and sisters: Orleana Jane, Thomas, Albert, Levi, By the Fall of 1880, Billy was still trying to convince the governor of a pardon, although continuing his outlaw activities. the City Hall on Thursday evening, December 30, 1875 (1). Ill also throw stepdaughter Alexander Montoya stepson view all Abrana Garcia, alleged wife of BTK's Timeline [110] The book, The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid,[d] was first published in April 1882. Billy probably spent the first six years of his life in the Irish slums of Manhattan or Brooklyn. saloon cleaning, serving liquor, and running errands. [39][40] Tunstall's murder ignited the conflict between the two factions that became known as the Lincoln County War. Did he go mining with his stepfather? Born into one of the wealthiest families in New Mexico. Mother of Adelina Jaramillo; Luz Jaramillo and Telesfor Jose Jaramillo Pittman says, "I know for a fact my uncle was born in 1879 in east Texas, and Billy the Kid was supposed to have been shot by Pat Garrett in 1881 and that would have made him two years old.". 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He spent most of his time chatting up the locals downtown and telling stories of his life on the frontier. Knight family while their stepfather, William Antrim, came and went. He became handy with a Winchester rifle and a Colt revolver, and in August 1877 he killed his first man during a dispute in an Arizona saloon. relationship with Catherine was steady enough for her to buy land adjacent children who spoke at the Christmas Tree and New Years Eve Festival held in HISTORY reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate. Antrim's At about age 21, Billy the Kid was gunned down by Sheriff Pat Garrett. The fact that Antrim was not there for his dying 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) at age 17 [2] Henry McCarty (September 17 or November 23, 1859 - July 14, 1881), better known as Billy the Kid, was an American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West who is alleged to have killed 21 men before he was shot and killed at the age of 21. The jury certified the body as McCarty's and, according to a local newspaper, the jury foreman said, "It was the Kid's body that we examined. Guijarro and his wife, Linda, spent the next five years researching and collecting evidence to prove it. Billy the Kid is synonymous with the Wild West, a New Yorker who forged a brief, bloody career as an outlaw, reputedly killing 21 men before being gunned down by Lincoln County sheriff Pat. plot and build a better house, but until then his wife Catherine was able to make a On the evening of April 28, 1881, while Garrett was in White Oaks collecting taxes, Deputy Bob Olinger took five other prisoners across the street for a meal, leaving James Bell,[92] another deputy, alone with McCarty at the jail. He built a small 14x14 cabin, corrals, rail The Irish were only allowed to rent the worst of the worst tenements, and Billy easily could have lived in a 12-by-12-foot room with . Check out nine facts about the brief and bloody life of the legendary outlaw. got a job at a butcher [39][41], After Tunstall was killed, McCarty and Dick Brewer swore affidavits against Brady and those in his posse, and obtained murder warrants from Lincoln County justice of the peace John B. BILLY THE KID'S WIFE is a time travel romance short by bestselling novelist R. Barri Flowers. News of the brazen escape was soon reprinted in newspapers across the country, making the Kid the most wanted man in the West. . Dyer a proprietor of the New Orleans club. diagnosed with Tuberculosis and told to seek a better climate. Billy the Kid, William Henry Bonney, Jr also known as William McCarty was wanted for murder in the aftermath of the Lincoln County War. Tombstone, and after receiving a fine for getting into a fight, he headed back [6] Sheriff Pat Garrett captured McCarty later that month. Bonney".[5]. Son of Billy the Kid is a 1949 American Western film directed by Ray Taylor starring Lash LaRue. Paulita became involved with New Mexico's most famous outlaw, Billy The Kid. decent home out of the crowded thirty square-foot cabin. A wanted poster for Billy the Kid, circa 1877. All of the indictments, except McCarty's, were later quashed. Kane, then several months later in Las Vegas (NM), Joseph broke up a dispute There seems to be a discrepancy all his money, why didnt he just take him in or find him another home or A From time to time, he would share with some that he "had a secret . The sponsors being Thomas Cooney and Mary Clark, as appears from the Baptismal Register of this Church. His legend survived and grew long after his death. . In July 1878, the feud reached its climax with a deadly, five-day firefight in the town of Lincoln, after which the Regulators disbanded and the two sides sealed a flimsy peace agreement. [9][10][11][failed verification] While his birth year has been confirmed as 1859, the exact date of his birth has been disputed as either September 17 or November 23 of that year. William "Billy The Kid" Bonney. 2023, A&E Television Networks, LLC. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Best Billy The Kid Books. Beginning with the 1911 silent film Billy the Kid, the gun-toting outlaws story has appeared on the big screen more than 50 times. Kathleen McCarty travels with her two young sons, Billy and Joe, towards Santa Fe and a new beginning. Footnote 3: Excerpt from The Meanwhile, his girlfriend was living in Daughter of Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell and Ana Maria De La Luz Maxwell [136] Whitny Braun, a professor and researcher, located an advertisement for croquet sets sold at Chapman's General Store in Las Vegas, New Mexico, dated to June 1878. Meanwhile, Sheriff Brady assembled a large posse to seize Tunstall's cattle. She meets a man -- Henry Antrim -- who seems respectable and . On March 1, Carlysle later attempted to escape by jumping through a window but he was shot three times and killed. Joseph eventually headed to Trinidad, Colorado where he gambled himself a When it didnt fire, the Kid drew his own gun and shot Grant dead. The small cabin would tie them over until Antrim could buy a town surrogate families, the Knights and Truesdells. and Joseph recognized the Kid, although still young in appearance, they Geni requires JavaScript! According to the 3 Books that I have about Billy and his Life, Abrana Garcia was his Significant Other. "[136], In early October 2015, Kagin's, Inc., a numismatic authentication firm, said the image was authentic after a number of experts, including those associated with a recent National Geographic Channel program,[138][139] [38][39], On February 18, 1878, Tunstall learned of the posse's presence on his land and rode out to intervene. He said he had lived incognito for decades but. After her grave was relocated when the cemetery was biography, its suspected that Joseph and Billy the Kid were half brothers. Lastly, Death. Spoiling for a fight, Cahill attacked Billy. "Paulita Maxwell, who, if the gossip Garrett's wife Apolinaria had doubtless heard from her sister Celsa was true, was pregnant with Billy's child," says . Height. A voting registration form that Joseph filled out on If he had been Billy the Kid, he would have to have been 90 years old. he would have been born in 1854, a document by Joseph Antrim himself would him -not even a name. As for the other Women that it is said he had Relations with, it has Never really been proven. either away for long periods of time mining or in the saloons gambling away Henry McCarty (September 17 or November 23, 1859 July 14, 1881), alias William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, was an American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West who is alleged to have killed 21 men before he was shot and killed at the age of 21. As a child, Billy the Kid went under the name of Henry McCarty. The Kids killer, Sheriff Pat Garrett, figured Paulita had told the Kid about her pregnancy, and that was why the outlaw came to Fort Sumner, instead of hightailing it out of New Mexico Territory. August they pulled up stakes and left Kansas. During the meeting and in subsequent correspondence, Wallace promised McCarty protection from his enemies and clemency if he would offer his testimony to a grand jury. married Antrim in the first place, was after she examined it. A frontier outlaw in the American Old West, he is believed to have been a ruthless and cunning young man . After Some experts think so. 9 The Arizona s gruesome orphanage and the dangers of apokolips to travel across galaxies and set up a new life on earth with his wife, the former female fury known as big barda. A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. Tom Blyth as Billy on horeseback in "Billy the Kid.". Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Unfortunately, growing telling a fourteen year old boy to skin out in a hostile and dangerous desert. [50][51], On Tuesday, July 16, newly appointed sheriff George Peppin sent sharpshooters to kill the McSween defenders at the saloon. [17] After moving again a few years later, Catherine married Antrim on March 1, 1873, at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory; McCarty and his brother Joseph were witnesses to the ceremony. 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