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 was linked to nine murders: four for which he was solely responsible, and five in which he may have played a role alongside others.

2009年11月13日 · Sheriff Pat Garrett shoots Henry McCarty, popularly known as Billy the Kid, to death at the Maxwell Ranch in New Mexico. Garrett, who had been tracking the Kid for three months after the ...

2020年5月14日 · Western outlaw Billy the Kid met his demise at about 12:30 a.m. on July 14, 1881, when he went to his friend Pete Maxwell’s home in Fort Sumner, New Mexico in search of a slice of beef for a ...

2024年12月31日 · Billy the Kid, American outlaw who became one of the most notorious gunfighters of the American West. Although he claimed to have killed 21 men, the actual number is likely less than 10. At about age 21, he was gunned down by Sheriff Pat Garrett.

2024年7月22日 · Billy the Kid, whose legal name was Henry McCarty, was almost certainly killed by Lincoln County, New Mexico, Sheriff Pat Garrett, though questions have always lingered about what really happened.

2023年6月29日 · The classic story is that William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett on the night of July 14th, 1881, at Fort Sumner in New Mexico. The 21-year-old Bonney had been on the run from Garrett since April, after escaping his jail in Lincoln County.

2023年12月5日 · In 1877, Billy the Kid killed his first man, Francis Cahill, after coming to blows with Cahill during a poker game. In 1878, he got wrapped up in the Lincoln County War, when Billy the Kid and others formed a vigilante group called “The Regulators” to avenge the death of rancher John Tunstall.

2014年4月3日 · He was hunted down and shot dead by Sheriff Pat Garrett on July 14, 1881, in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Shortly after the shooting, Sheriff Garrett wrote a biography of Billy, the hugely...

2009年8月18日 · Billy was convicted of Sheriff’s Brady’s murder and was sentenced to hang. On April 28, 1881, he overpowered and killed a guard then killed another deputy before escaping. Sheriff Pat Garrett tracked Billy, who was now 21 years old, to the old Fort Sumner.

2023年9月1日 · One of the most infamous Wild West gunfighters, Billy the Kid claimed to have killed 21 men before he was fatally shot in New Mexico in 1881.