![]() ![]() The LincolnCounty wars, fought during the 1870s, created an arena whereby powerful men, to fight their opposition, would use young men like Billy the Kid to fight their battles. ![]() Because he was small of stature and very thin, he was unable to hold his own in a fistfight. He learned to survive in the streets by becoming an expert at handling a gun. Believed to have been born in an Irish neighborhood of New York City, young Henry McCarty and his family moved to Wichita, Kansas, to Denver, Colorado, and finally to New Mexico. With over fifty pages of endnotes, Wallis has gathered a thorough background of Billy’s life. ![]() The book should have been titled The Life and Times of Billy the Kid because it also presents a broad picture of how people lived in the West during young Billy’s short life. Michael Wallis attempts to debunk the myth about this famous outlaw. Henry McCarty aka William Bonney aka Billy the Kid lived a short but violent life from 1859 until he was killed by Pat Garrett in 1881. ![]()
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