Some History and Photographs of "Billy the Kid" by; Robert Swetz
This photo (above) was taken in the courthouse in (Lincoln New Mexico) where the Kid was charged for murder and sentenced to hang!
Here is some information about the Kid's escape and some men that he killed, how true do you think these facts are?
Here is a bullet hole in the wall that the Kid left while trying to escape!
Drawing (above) of Pat Garret shooting and killing Billy the Kid at Fort Sumner
Painting (above) in the museum in Lincoln New Mexico of the Kid shooting his pistols
Another painting (above) of Billy the Kid and some of the men he killing! And the photo (below) is a colored painting in the museum painted to look like the Black & White at the very top of the page.
The Black & White photograph at the (top) of the page is only one of a few real photographs ever taken of Billy the Kid.
The Legend of "Billy the Kid" has been described as a vicious and ruthless killer, an Outlaw who died at the age of twenty-one.
It was said he took the lives of twenty-one men , one for each year of his life, the first when he was twelve years old.
Billy the Kid was not a cold-blooded killer, but a young man who lived in a dog-eat-dag world. Where knowing how to use a gun was the difference between Life & Death.
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And as you read his biography keep in mind that "The Kid" lived in a very different, lawless, corrupted time, please don't judge him by today's morals & laws!
Story and photographs of photos and art by Robert Swetz - "Please do not duplicate in any manner"
photographs taken 7-5-2009
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