Gunslinger Billy the Kid dies

Gunslinger Billy the Kid dies

4 years ago By Chase Brush
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After tracking the legendary gunslinger for three months, Sheriff Pat Garrett finds Henry McCarty—aka Billy the Kid—at the Maxwell Ranch in New Mexico, where he shoots the fugitive to death. Just 21 at the time, McCarty had earlier been imprisoned for killing two lawmen but escaped just days before his scheduled execution, making him one of the West's most wanted men.

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Year
1881
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