Haley Hyder Shadden Cobb/Stout Ela/Social Studies 8 May 2017 Billy The Kid The life of Billy The Kid was short lived. He was chased by a sheriff with a $500 bounty on his head. He was known for lots of thefts,escapes,and shooting people. William H. Bonney born November 23,1859 to Catherine McCarty. William was better known as Billy The Kid, His father died shortly after their family moved to kansas. William was a honest 14-year old when his mother died in 1874 he became an orphan. William died at age 21 of a gunshot wound at Ft. Summer in New Mexico territory. According to Legends of America,”On December 15,1880,Governor Wallace, put a $500 reward on Billy’s head”. A sheriff named Pat Garrett and a group of friends and when out
Bill first appeared in the Arizona territory in Tombstone and made some friends. Bill had met several members of the cow-boy faction (Clanton gang), he met Johnny Ringo, Ike Clanton, and Curly Bill Brocius just to name
Billy the Kid was just a normal kid and then it all started he stole something."He stole some butter and sold it to a silver city store.".William Henry McCarty Jr. also known as “Billy the Kid” was caught with his brother and sent to prison for petty thief. Shortly after his mother died of tuberculosis. His father left or died and billy was orphaned at the age of 15. “Billy the Kid” was killed by sheriff Patrick Garett after he killed his two guards and escaping from prison for killing sheriff Brady. From there it went downhill he started murdering even.Whenever he was older he started working for Tunstall ranch in the city. Then Jimmy Dolan took over the business. The loss of the store made the old owner Tunstall very angry. Tunstall said “The rancher told his men to ride with there guns loaded. The war was about to start”. It’s taking a stand because he didn't just let his store get taken
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
Henry McCarty, more commonly known as Billy the Kid or William Bonney, was born around 1959 in the Manhattan area of New York. His mother, Catherine was an immigrant from Ireland who worked odd jobs to support their family. Soon after the death of her husband, Catherine, Henry, and her younger son Joseph moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, in which she met her future husband William Antrim. The family accompanied Antrim to Kansas, and then New Mexico after Catherine was diagnosed with tuberculosis and advised to seek a warmer, drier climate. Antrim and Catherine were married soon after the move to New Mexico.
BILLY BIBBIT: He was a man who was really attached to his mother and could be easily swayed by any mention of his mother just like a child. Later on he managed to get a girlfriend named Candy Starr. He went on many adventures with McMurphy and Bromden and was able to experience life a little more when he let his mother slip out of his mind. She wasn’t completely gone though; this was shown when Big Nurse threatened to tell his mom about what he has done and Billy goes into straight panic mode and kills himself by slitting his throat. It seemed as though he had some sort of deep psychological fear about what would happen if he disobeyed his mother.
Billy Budd is responsible for his own death. There are times when taking someone’s life is necessary such as a time of war, but not in a heating argument. Captain Vere, said it best that the crime is what they were worried about, not the case between right and wrong. The crime was murder. Billy was a hard worker who would do his best to help anyone out. However, Billy was not judged on the type of man he was he was judged by the action that had taken place.
Bonney. Not even exiting his teenage years, legend say he had killed a dozen men; he roamed then southwestern ranges killing, robbing and having sexual relations with Mexican maidens who would later sing about their bandit King Billy. At the age of twelve he gained huge reputation by committing his first murder on a man for making a remark about his mother, and it exceeded from there on. In mythology Billy was a Hermes, who chose the dark side of his destiny rather than the boring life that it could of led to. With a mortal taking sympathy of gods, extreme transformations will occur and take place. Later on, Billy was arrested for killing a sheriff, where he later escaped by taking the lives of two security guards. In 1881, the reality and mythical stories that were told were later sold on the streets of the city where he was born which was called The True Life of Billy the Kid, which sky-rocketed William’s
“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?
What would you do if your dad was a serial killer and you had been brainwashed as a child? Would you be what your father says you are supposed to become a serial killer or would you resent your so called density that your father says you have? Jasper is his name, he goes by Jazz. We start off the book with jaspers dear old dad billy dent getting arrested by G. william who later becomes the closest thing jazz has had to a fatherly figure. G. william has tracked down billy dent and arrested him in his own home in a town called Lobos nod. G William is the local sheriff of Lobo Nod. Ever since the day jazzs dear old day was arrested jazz has tried to bury his past behind him. Jazz had tried to make his life as normal as possible but living with his crazy grandmother and terrible past. he’ll never be the carefree teen he wants to be even with the help of his girlfriend Connie and his best friend Howie.
Billy was a character of perseverance and hard work this was shown for two years to save up for his dogs. He is hardworking because he worked for two years for for his dogs and he waited for two years. He is also patients because after the two years of
While constantly aware of Miss Drew’s situation, Billy can’t escape the realization of his position’s possible transiency and the fact that his life depends on his usefulness in the gang: “all I had to remember was how small of a mistake was sufficient to change my fortune, maybe even without knowing it. I was an habitual accomplice to murder. I could be arrested, tried, and sentenced, to death”(123). From this, Billy is impressed with one of the fundamental rules that accompanies inclusion in gang life—absolute loyalty to the gang’s interests. Billy observes the consequences of breaking this rule of loyalty when he hops onto the boat and into the scene of Bo’s sinking figure, and later, when Schulz’s personal life becomes complicated with a pending courtcase. The gang loyally relocates to the rural small town of Onondaga to help ensure the boss avoids jailtime. After painstakingly building an amiable reputation in the town for the Boss, Schultz’s temperament leads to “the president” Julie Martin’s murder in the hotel. The entire gang dutifully cleans the room and removes the body with cover up concluding with and unprepared Billy being punched in the face. After the fact, Billy comes to see the necessity of his subsequent broken nose yet is internally insulted and cannot shake the urge to “get revenge” (159). This affront to his own ego caused a shift
In the period time from 1865- 1890, the Plain and Indian War. It started when the Americans wanted to expand to the Great Plains. The only problem was that the Indians lived there. In addition, the government decided to move them to reservations that were small and farming was not possible because the land was dry. The Indians fought for their lands and some of those battles were the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Wounded Knee, and the Sand Creek Massacre. Furthermore, after the Indians lost, the government gave them the opportunity to become and live like white settlers. For that, they will have to give up on their culture, traditions, and language. Furthermore, while the Plain and Indian Wars was going on, in the Wild West Billy the Kid was becoming a legend. In short, like every legend there had to be an end. In the article, The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid by Garrett Pat, identify the incidents that ended the life of William Bonney and the significates of this document in the United States.
Billy had ended up killing most of the group but was still looking for Sheriff Brady. On April 1, 1878 Billy got his wish. Billy and a group of five friends positioned themselves behind an adobe wall and waited for Brady and his posse to come into town. When they finally did Billy and his band of outlaws opened fire from their ambush and killed Brady and his posse. Even though Billy used great strategy to gain the upper hand on Brady he was regarded as a coward for the ambush and lost the support of the people who had supported him.
Billy the kid includes the trait of being capable of a deed of strength and courage. Billy gives examples of strength and courage because “Billy the kid could be charming and quite one minute to violent and outraged the next, A quixotic nature he used to great effect during his heist and robberies” (“Billy”). According to his killer Sheriff Garrett. He carries out the trait because Billy was very courageous during his life. He was courageous because he escaped prison twice and he killed off people just so he could survive, it was his only option, Because of these reasons Billy is able to be known for being very courageous.
Billy is tough. He got into a fight with the kids at the town of Talequh when they starting teasing on his dogs.