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way up to his cell. Bob Olinger died with 36 buckshot in his belly. Billy mounted his horse, rode out of town without a single confrontation, and the Kid was free once agian. Although the Kid was back on his own, he was still a wanted man. Pat Garrett, a local lawmen, tracked down the Kid and found him visiting his sweetheart in Fort Sumner. Garrett waited in a bedroom of Pete Maxwell, a long time friend of Billy’s. The Kid opened the door with a butcher’s knife in hand looking for a side of beef when Garrett put an end to the most notorious outlaw in the west with a single shot to the heart. On July 14, 1881, Billy the Kid became a part of history. While Billy the Kid killed for revenge, this next outlaw killed out of greed and want.

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