Billy the Kid (COMPILATION)

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 258 minutes

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In the summer of 1881, Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett. The lawman had been on the hunt ever since Billy broke out of jail in Lincoln and finally caught up to the bandit at Old Fort Sumner. It was around midnight, and Pat was waiting inside Pete Maxwell’s darkened bedroom when the Kid stepped in. “Quien es?” Billy asked, noticing the large shape looming in the shadows. “Who is it?” Pat answered in the form of two shots from his 44-40 Colt revolver and just like that Billy the Kid was over. At least in his mortal form. His body may have been stuck in the ground the next day, but can’t no pine box contain the legend that soon emerged. And make no mistake about it, Billy the Kid has taken on mythical proportions unrivaled by any other character of the old West over the decades that followed. But who was he REALLY? This is the definitive guide to Billy the Kid, a remastered compilation from a previously released five-part series, along with a look at the mystery surrounding the Kid’s death. Check out my website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Join INTO HISTORY for bonus content! https://intohistory.com/wildwestextra/ Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life | Robert Utley - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0803295588?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzjoshta02-20&creativeASIN=0803295588&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.YEHGNY7KFAU7&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_asin Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride | Michael Wallis - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393060683?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzjoshta02-20&creativeASIN=0393060683&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.YEHGNY7KFAU7&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_asin Were people allowed to view Billy’s dead body? https://btkcoalition.com/btk-history-blog/f/debunking-brushy-were-people-allowed-to-view-billys-dead-body Dr. Robert Stahl | Pleading for Death Certificate - http://doc45.com/pleading/tenth-court-pleading-by-dr-robert-stahl-for-kid-death-certificate.pdf Billy the Kid’s Grave by David G. Thomas - https://www.amazon.com/dp/154240472X?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzjoshta02-20&creativeASIN=154240472X&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.YEHGNY7KFAU7&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_asin Looking for the series on Pat Garrett? Start here - https://www.wildwestextra.com/pat-garrett-origin-story-part-1/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Story goes that in the summer of 1881, Billy the kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett.
0:36.4	The lawman had been on the hunt ever since
0:38.4	Billy broke out of jail in the town of Lincoln 78 days prior and finally caught up to the bandit at Old Fort Sumner.
0:45.3	It was round about midnight and Pat was waiting inside Pete Maxwell's darkened bedroom when the kid stepped in.
0:51.6	Kness, he asked, noticing the large shape looming in the shadows?
0:56.2	Who is it?
0:57.3	Pat answered in the form of two shots from his 4440 colt revolver, and just like that, Billy
1:02.9	the kid was over, at least in his mortal form.
1:06.3	His body may have been stuck in the ground the next day, but again, no pine box
1:10.3	contained the legend that soon emerged. And make no mistake about it, over the ground the next day, but again, no pine box contained the legend
1:11.1	that soon emerged. And make no mistake about it, over the decades of the follow, Billy the Kid
1:15.9	has taken on mythical proportions unrivaled by any other character of the Old West. One thing
1:21.6	needs to be established from the Giggo, something I'll be repeating throughout this entire series.
1:26.7	The irrefutable fact that we have little to no idea who Billy the kid was.
1:30.9	Not really.
1:31.9	We don't know where or when he was born, who his father was,
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