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Billy The Kid Research Paper

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Billy the Kid’s real name was Henry McCarty, who was born November 23, 1859. In 1874 when Billy was 14 years old his mother died of Consumption. He later went to Camp Grant, Arizona where he was taught to always have a six-gun in his underwear. Then about a year or so later he shot the sheriff for an April Fool’s prank and took back his rifle that the sheriff took from him shooting in the air, drunk.Billy the Kid In lincoln County he led a shootout in the streets lasting 5 days. He killed a famous man back then named John Tunstall, and he was a famous horse thiever. After all the battle’s the newest sheriff elected Pat Garrett a man who knew Henry McCarty personally to kill him. The sheriff wrote a letter to the marshall sentencing him to

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