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Billy The Kid Research Paper

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“I don’t blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don’t know if anyone would believe anything good of me anyway,”-Billy the Kid. Although many people believe Billy the kid was a bad person, there are many stories of Billy that make him seem like a carefree and funny person. Billy the Kid had to overcome lots of obstacles in his life and those hardships are what made him a bad person. “Billy’s real name was Henry McCarty,he was also known as William H. Bonney” (2 “Billy”). Many rumors have been stated about Billy the Kid for years, but what is the real life of Billy the Kid? When Billy was still a child his mother remarried a guy named William Antrim but she shortly died of Tuberculosis. “Antrim didn’t want the burden of raising two small boys, so he separated them and placed them in foster homes” (Brothers). “At the age of 14, the smooth-cheeked, blue-eyed McCarty was forced to find work in a hotel, washing and waiting tables at the restaurant” (“Old”). Before Billy’s mother died he had a younger brother named Joseph, who is also known as Joe. Billy and his brother ran around town with other boys their age because there was …show more content…

It is known that Billy had a great sense of humor. Many people said he was sometimes good natured and generous. Billy the kid's friends say he was very optimistic, cunning, and reckless. He was said to be very dependable and would risk his life for those he cared about. Billy’s most famous gunfight was in the Lincoln County War. Billy was fighting “against Irishman James Dolan was the most notorious and caused the most bloodshed” (“Brothers”). Sheriff Murphy had ordered his men to hunt down John Tunstall, who happened to be Billys mentor and friend. After he was murdered, Billy wanted revenge on the men that killed Mr. Tunstall. Billy and his friends lost the fight and fled as soon as it was

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