Billy the Kid is still big business— and nothing proved ... If anyone truly believed in its authenticity, you’d think a ...

Bonney on film was in a pair of silent films made in 1911, one of which was titled The Adventure of Billy the Kid, directed ...

An outlaw with a deadly reputation, Billy the Kid was gunned down by an ambitious sheriff on July 14, 1881. The felling of one of the most notorious criminals of the age was instantly national news.

When Wallace attempted to end the fighting by offering amnesty to all involved, Billy the Kid responded. "I have no wish to fight anymore," McCarty wrote in a letter to Governor Wallace.