Billy The Kid

It was September 17, 1859, Manhattan New York. Katherine McCarty has just reached shore from Ireland, and she is about to be a mother. Her son Henry is born, and together they move to Silver City, New Mexico. Katherine married William Antrim, who never liked Henry. When Katherine died with tuberculosis, William left Henry to fend for himself. Henry then started to steal to live. He also started to gamble. One day he was playing cards with a local outlaw, who wasn't to keen on loosing. He started beating up Henry until Henry grabbed his gun and shot him in the stomach. Henry then ran away to Lincoln County, New Mexico and changed his name to William H. Bonney. He was stealing horses from local ranch man, John Tunstall, and had a severe punishment. Tunstall agreed to drop the charges, and let Billy free if Billy worked for him. Tunstall was running for office against Laurence Murphy, of the Murphy-Dolan faction. Murphy and Dolan hired Sheriff Brady and his posse to kill Tunstall, and they did. Then, Billy and the rest of Tunstall's men recovered Tunstall’s body and declared war on the group who was responsible. Billy and his gang of regulators Ambushed the Faction, and the Faction ambushed the Regulators. Once most of the Faction were killed, the U.S. Army got involved. Wanted posters were made, and put up everywhere. Billy was at number one on their list of Regulators. Billy was eventually captured by the new Sheriff named Pat Garrett. Billy was held on trial and was founded guilty. While waiting for his hanging Garrett had to leave, he told his two deputies Bob Olinger (who bullied Billy) and James Bell (who respected Billy as a person but still treated him like a criminal) not to let their guard down. After Bob got done threatening Billy with a double barrel shotgun he left it in the jailhouse and went across the street to get food. Billy Told Bell he needed to use the bathroom. Bell took him to the outhouse and while going up the stairs, Billy got out of the large handcuffs, grabbed a pistol, and shot Bell. Before Billy escaped on a horse, he grabbed Bob's double barrel shotgun and smashed the second floor window. Everyone ran outside to see what was going on, including Bob. Billy's last words to him were "Hello Bob", Billy shot him and then rode out of town, in his hideout in Fort Sumner. The video clip from the movie Young Guns two shows how it happened, because it is kind of hard to explain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ5lZPc3664

Later, Garrett went to Fort Sumner to kill Billy. The legend goes he and two deputies killed Billy. What actually happened is they killed Billy's friend, while Billy escaped. Sixty-nine years later a man named Bill Roberts said he was Billy the Kid. He showed interviewers how to get out of handcuffs and was a good shot with a revolver. A few days later he was brought into a conference and was interviewed by many people at once. He died the next day of a heart attack. Billy the kid was the most famous outlaw ever. Unlike most outlaws it is divided whether he was to be thought hero or villain. That is for you to decide.