Billy the Kid New Mexico has had many well-known legends throughout its history. Billy the Kid was arguably one of most famous legends that New Mexico has ever had. Also known as William H. Bonney‚ Billy the Kid became a prominent and feared outlaw due to his violent nature. His life is still a heated topic throughout America‚ due to his unnatural cruelness and pain. His disturbing acts of cruelty caused many tragedies captured many lives‚ including his own‚ making his life one to remember
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Billy the Kid has a lot of history surrounding him. Some of it true and some left unknown. People like making his story more elaborate or more heroic than it might have been. But in reality Billy the Kid wasn’t as big of a figure as most stories make him out to be. Yes‚ he was a very good shot and had plenty of run ins with the law‚ but how people personify him range from fact to fiction leaving one to question many of the accounts made of him. Billy’s actual name growing ups wasn’t actually Billy
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Is Billy The Kid a Tragic Hero? William H. Bonney (born William Henry McCarty‚ Jr.) was known for his sulky smooth character‚ his enigmatic hero/outlaw image‚ and most importantly his treacherous rumored 21 murders. Most commonly and historically known as Billy the Kid‚ Bonney was born November 1859 in New York City‚ having moved around numerous times as a young child‚ and ultimately settling down in the Old American West. Orphaned as a young boy‚ “The Kid” began hanging around the wrong crowd
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Billy the Kid is my kind of Cowboy This issue of Living in the West explores the love affair we have with the great American Cowboy. Call them cowhands‚ cowpoke‚ cowpuncher or buckaroos‚ billions of dollars have been spent chronicling their storied history. With his Stetson hat‚ sunburned face‚ weathered dungarees and boots of leather‚ the cowboy has gone from a ranch hand to a blue color icon. In fact‚ America’s love affair with the cowboy has been around longer than the name “cowboy” itself
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Billy the kid ‚ the legend lives on Henry McCarty‚ Henry Antrim and William H Bonny are all aliases of the notorious Billy the Kid. Born in the slums of New York City‚ Billy grew up in what we would consider today a broken home. The exact date of his birth is uncertain but it he is known to be born in the early 1860s. After his mother passed away and his step father no longer cared for him‚ Billy moved to a boarding house. While there he began his career as an outlaw. Incarcerated
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Billy the Kid William H. Bonney(born William Henry McCarty‚ Jr.) Est. November 23‚ 1859—C. July 14‚ 1881‚ better known as Billy the Kid but also known as Henry Antrim‚ was a 19th-century American gunman who participated in the Lincoln county war and became a frontier outlaw on the west. According to legend he killed 21 men‚ but is generally accepted to have killed between four and nine. In this movie Young Guns based loosely on actual events and people. William H. Bonney (aka Billy the Kid).
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Colleen Knier Mr. McCarthy Rogues and Reformers 25 February 2013 Billy the Kid vs. Young Guns The legendary story of Billy the Kid has been told for over one hundred years. Movies have been made since then‚ portraying a similar story of Billy the Kid. The popular movie‚ Young Guns‚ was made in 1988 and was based around the teenage life of Billy and his posse known as “The Regulators”. However‚ the movie had many major historical inaccuracies. One example of a historical inaccuracy was the
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In the 1988 movie Young Guns we will analyze William H. Bonney‚ better known as Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez) as the outlaw hero‚ and Patrick Floyd Garrett (Patrick Wayne) as the official hero. This movie was closely based on real life events of the Lincoln County war of 1877-1878‚ but because the real life events weren’t nearly as controversial and exciting‚ the movie was minimally changed in various ways to make it more appealing to audiences. The movie starts out with a group of wayward young
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War. In April of 1878‚ the Regulators killed three men‚ including a sheriff and his deputy. Billy the Kid and two other Regulators were charged with killing all three men. Billy the Kid’s name spread across the country in December of 1880 when the Las Vegas Gazette and the New York Sun published stories of his crimes. (Metz
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The Lincoln county war took place in New Mexico between 1878 and dragged on through 1881. It was all started between John Tunstall who owns and manages a large ranch operation in Lincoln County. Two Irish men‚ J.J Dolan and L.G Murphy operated the general store in town‚ which was named the house. Through the house the access to lucrative beef contracts with the government was controlled. The bigger ranchers such as John Chisum and Alex McSween didn’t like the thought of merchants controlling the
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