Author : C. L. Sonnichsen
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 2015-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780692534045
In 1948 a childhood friend of Billy the Kid claimed he was still living and led investigators to a man in Texas known as William H. "Brushy Bill" Roberts. Over the course of several months Mr. Roberts provided proof that he was the Kid including 5 sworn affidavits from close acquaintances of the Kid confirming he was the same man.
Author : Donald Cline
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780865340800
Traces the brief and violent life of the outlaw who gained notoriety throughout the West
Author : Pat Floyd Garrett
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 10,50 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Crime
ISBN :
Author : Walter Noble Burns
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Criminals
ISBN :
Author : Daniel a Edwards
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780692437254
In 1882 a notorious outlaw and a childhood friend of Billy the Kid was released from prison where he had been serving time for killing a Texas Ranger. His freedom finally secured, the outlaw disappeared and was never heard from again. Never, that is, until 1948 when he came out of hiding after almost 70 years. In the course of proving his identity to a court of law the outlaw revealed that his friend Billy the Kid was not killed by Pat Garrett but was still alive even to that day. After a period of research and persistence the young lawyer was finally led to a destitute old man in Texas who was named not William H. Bonney but William H. Roberts, although Bonney had been an alias that he had used. Roberts agreed to reveal himself as Billy the Kid if the lawyer would help him obtain a pardon so he could die a free man. You see, the Kid was still wanted for murder so to come forward was to risk being sentenced and put to death, but this was a risk that William H. Roberts was willing to take. He told his story only one time, to one man. This is his story, now presented for the first time with new photographic evidence and research that supports his claim that he was the one true Billy the Kid of legend.
Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : Beyond the Grave
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Impostors and imposture
ISBN : 9781589793811
Did Pat Garrett kill the wrong man in 1881 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, or did the outlaw known as Billy the Kid live on as William Henry Roberts until 1948? W.C. Jameson analyzes the evidence, including use of new technology to produce a compelling case for Billy's survival. Heralded by Booklist as an enjoyable reexamination of a legendary piece of Americana, this book traces the life of the famous desperado and the controversy that still is debated today. Now in paperback!
Author : Kathleen P. Chamberlain
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0826352804
The events of July 19, 1878, marked the beginning of what became known as the Lincoln County War and catapulted Susan McSween and a young cowboy named Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, into the history books. The so-called war, a fight for control of the mercantile economy of southeastern New Mexico, is one of the most documented conflicts in the history of the American West, but it is an event that up to now has been interpreted through the eyes of men. As a woman in a man’s story, Susan McSween has been all but ignored. This is the first book to place her in a larger context. Clearly, the Lincoln County War was not her finest hour, just her best known. For decades afterward, she ran a successful cattle ranch. She watched New Mexico modernize and become a state. And she lived to tell the tales of the anarchistic territorial period many times.
Author : John William Poe
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 0865345325
Many years after the death of Billy the Kid, Deputy John William Poe, who was just outside the door when Sheriff Pat Garrett killed Billy, wrote out the whole story, which was published in a small edition. While certain statements made in the book by Poe are controversial, his account is a valuable document for anyone interested in Billy the Kid.
Author : Charles Leland Sonnichsen
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Crime and criminals
ISBN :
The story of Brushy Bill Roberts, who confessed in 1950, that he was Billy the Kid, and petitioned the governor of New Mexico for a pardon.
Author : Charles Leland Sonnichsen
Publisher :
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
ISBN :
In 1948 a childhood friend of Billy the Kid claimed Billy was still living and led investigations to a man in Texas known as William H. "Brushy Bill" Roberts. After intially denying it, Brushy finally agreed to confess his identity on the condition the investigator would help him obtain a pardon so he could die a free man. Over the course of several months Mr. Roberts provided many astounding proofs that he was the Kid of legend, including physical evidence and firsthand knowledge of many obscure aspects of the Kid's life. In addition, the investigator assisted Roberts with fiding living acquaintance of Billy the Kid who signed sworn affidavits stating Roberts was the man they know. --Back cover.
