[134][135], In 2010, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson turned down a request for a posthumous pardon of McCarty for the murder of Sheriff William Brady.
Garrett refused to surrender the prisoner, and a tense confrontation ensued until he agreed to let the sheriff and two other men accompany the party to Santa Fe, where they would petition the governor to release Rudabaugh to them. Sarah Brown, the owner of a boarding house, gave him room and board in exchange for work. The song also says that Billy the Kid was captured and hanged, with many people attending the hanging; in reality, he was shot and killed by Pat Garrett. [4], Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire, Dick Brewer, Billy the Kid and the Regulators, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Billy_the_Kid_(film_series)&oldid=967432852, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 July 2020, at 06:47. Grant handed it over.
"[85] According to the historical record, he did not speak after the reading of his sentence. [62] The film suffered from production difficulties as well as from Peckinpah's battles with MGM over his artistic vision and budget overruns. With Penny Baker, Billy P., Heather Pelletier. During the encounter, one member of the posse shot Tunstall in the chest, knocking him off his horse. [3][4] He also fought in New Mexico's Lincoln County War, during which he allegedly committed three murders. The following day, an armed mob gathered at the train depot before the prisoners, who were already on board the train with Garrett, departed for Santa Fe. [40] The Texas historian, J. Frank Dobie, wrote in A Vaquero of the Brush Country (1929): "...because his daring apotheosized youth—youth in the saddle—youth with a flaming gun—and because his daring kept him running and balancing on the edge of a frightful precipice...Billy the Kid will always be interesting, will always appeal to the popular imagination. On September 16, 1875, McCarty was caught stealing food. [129] Collector Robert G. McCubbin and outlaw historian John Boessenecker concluded in 2013 that the photograph does not show McCarty. [32][33], By the mid-1920s, however, Bonney's place in the general awareness of the American public had diminished to the point that in 1925 Harvey Fergusson asked in the American Mercury magazine, "Who remembers Billy the Kid?". [68], In 1941 Life magazine ran a piece on Billy the Kid called America's Best-Loved Badman. [56][57], On February 18, 1879, McCarty and friend Tom O'Folliard were in Lincoln and watched as attorney Huston Chapman was shot and his corpse set on fire. The jury certified the body as McCarty's and, according to a local newspaper, the jury foreman said, "It was the Kid's' body that we examined. On November 29, 1880, McCarty, Rudabaugh, and Billy Wilson ran from a posse led by sheriff's deputy James Carlyle.
[27] Between 1897 and 1909, during the Progressive era of political activism and reform, the popular American novelist Emerson Hough wrote magazine articles, novels and informal histories that reintroduced Billy the Kid to a national audience, albeit in works that often relied more on fantasy than on actual events.
Miller's body was buried in the state-owned Arizona Pioneers' Home Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona; in May 2005, Miller's teeth and bones[110] were exhumed and examined,[111] without permission from the state. In April 1881, McCarty was tried and convicted of Brady's murder, and was sentenced to hang in May of that year. At Fort Stanton in the Pecos Valley,[32] McCarty—starving and near death—went to the home of friend and Seven Rivers Warriors gang member John Jones, whose mother Barbara nursed him back to health. During the next 50 years, a number of men claimed they were Billy the Kid. [15], The lawman and former ranch hand Charlie Siringo first told his version of the Kid's story in a chapter of his book, "A Texas Cowboy" (1885). On April 13, Judge Warren Bristol sentenced McCarty to hang, with his execution scheduled for May 13, 1881. [59], The film director Sam Peckinpah attempted an ambitious retelling of the legend in his last western film,[60] Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), covering the last few months of Bonney's life,[61] in which the violence and physical brutality of the world the protagonists inhabited is portrayed realistically. McCarty and the other men fled the building when all rooms but one were burning. The legend of Billy the Kid has acquired iconic status in American folklore, yet the outlaw himself, also known as William Bonney, had minimal impact on historical events in New Mexico Territory of the late 1800s. [14] After moving again a few years later, Catherine married Antrim on March 1, 1873, at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory; McCarty and his brother Joseph were witnesses to the ceremony.
"[55] Wallace issued an amnesty proclamation on November 13, 1878, which pardoned anyone involved in the Lincoln County War since Tunstall's murder. [74][75], "Billy the Kid: The True Story of a Western 'Bad Man, "Reinventing Billy the Kid: The Juvenile Delinquent as Icon", Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire, Dick Brewer, Billy the Kid and the Regulators, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Legend_of_Billy_the_Kid&oldid=984133800, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 18 October 2020, at 11:31. [36] Publication of "The Saga", in spite of its dubious facts and fabricated events, subsequently led to a proliferation of other books, magazines and newspaper articles, and then to movies, about the life of Billy the Kid. McCarty was charged with theft and was jailed.
[9] It was credited to Garrett, but the first fifteen chapters were a concoction of factual material mixed with fabrications, written by Roswell's postmaster, Ash Upson, an itinerant journalist. [139] It was stolen on February 8, 1981, but recovered days later in Huntington Beach, California. Marshal Robert Widenmann, a friend of McCarty, and a detachment of soldiers captured Sheriff Brady's jail guards, put them behind bars, and released Bonney and Brewer. All films feature Al St. John as Billy's sidekick "Fuzzy" Jones; St. John also played the same character as the sidekick in the "Lone Rider" series from 1941-1943.
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