He began a life of crime by stealing a pair of jeans, and quickly moved to larger-scale robberies. Robert LeRoy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy, was born in 1866 in Beaver, Utah, the eldest of 13 children in a Mormon English immigrant family. Garrett later wrote a book called The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid. The Kid died on 14 July 1881 in a shootout with the sheri , who then collected the bounty of 00. He was sentenced to death, only to escape, killing both of his guards in the process, and remain on the run for two months until Garrett tracked him down again at Fort Sumner. Sheriff Pat Garrett captured the Kid in December 1880. Grant had allegedly come after him, but after the Kid asked to admire his would-be assassin’s gun and surreptitiously ensured it wouldn’t fire, he shot him first.
Accused and later convicted of killing Lincoln County sheriff William J Brady during the conflict, the Kid remained at large for some time and famously shot and killed Joe Grant at Hargrove’s Saloon in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Then after some cattle rustling, he took part in a violent feud known as the Lincoln County War in New Mexico, in which he sided and fought with a gang called the Regulators.
He had become a fugitive after shooting dead a blacksmith who had been bullying him in a bar fight. By the time of his death at the age of 21, he is reputed to have killed eight men.
William H Bonney, who also went by the name Henry McCarty – but will always be best remembered as Billy the Kid – had a short career as an outlaw.
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