![]() For many years three Irish immigrants had cooperated to control the county, Lawrence G. This “war” emerged out of a contest for the political and economic future of Lincoln County, New Mexico. Bonney, gained notoriety in the “Lincoln County War” in New Mexico. Utley states, “a short and violent life.” He was rumored to have killed 21 men, but the best evidence is that he probably only killed eight between 1877 and his death at the hand of lawman Pat Garrett in 1881.Īlthough a petty rustler and highwayman beforehand, the Kid, who also went by the alias William H. Born Henry McCarty, the Kid lived, as historian Robert M. There are no fewer than 180 biographies, memoirs, and the like available concerning Bill the Kid (1859-1881), the rustler, gunman, and sometime cowhand. ![]() Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. ![]() Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life. By Robert M. ![]()
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