Billy the Kid | Quién es (Part 5)

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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By 1880 The Kid was not only being hunted by Sheriff Pat Garrett and the Texas Panhandle Stock Association, but the federal authorities as well. He’d be arrested, sentenced to hang, and then make one of the most daring escapes of the Old West. Little did Billy know how numbered his days truly were. In this final chapter of the Billy the Kid series, we’ll delve into the gritty details of the standoff at White Oaks, the Stinking Springs standoff, the daring escape from the Lincoln jail, the shotgun full of dimes rumor, and more! This is part 5 in a series of 5. Links below for the previous 4 installments. Check out the Wild West Extravaganza website for more true tales from the wild and woolly 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 Patreon for bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra Billy the Kid pt 1 | Orphan - https://www.wildwestextra.com/billy-the-kid-orphan/ Billy the Kid pt 2 | Prelude to War - https://www.wildwestextra.com/billy-the-kid-prelude-to-war/ Billy the Kid pt 3 | Lincoln County War - https://www.wildwestextra.com/billy-the-kid-lincoln-county-war/ Billy the Kid pt 4 | Desperado - https://www.wildwestextra.com/billy-the-kid-desperado/ 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	the year was nineteen fifteen and a crime reporter from chicago stepped into an el paso beer joint to quench his thirst the parched newspaper men in the area covering poncho via's various exploits happened to notice an old revolver hanging behind the bar
0:15.3	being the curious sort he inquired as to his provenance only to have the bartender revealed that it was the
0:21.4	pistol that was used to kill Billy the Kid.
0:25.0	Billy the who?
0:25.9	asked the journalist, drawing a blank.
0:28.4	The Kid used to be a famous outlaw around hereabouts.
0:32.4	The reporter finished his beer and then went upon his business, logging the name Billy
0:36.6	the kid somewhere in the
0:37.8	recesses of his brain. Skip ahead a few years in the Chicago Newspaperman found himself
0:43.1	once again in the Southwest, visiting family. He still hadn't forgotten about this
0:48.2	Billy the Kid character, so he decided to make a drive and ask around. He ends up interviewing
0:53.6	several people who knew the
0:54.8	kid, including Billy's old flame, Paulita Maxwell. And he wrote a book, a bestseller,
1:00.4	titled The Saga of Billy the Kid. Not the most historically accurate work, the saga of Billy
1:06.3	the Kid was nonetheless a hit and picked up by the Book of the Month Club. Four years later, the first of many movies was released, Billy the Kid, starring Johnny
1:15.1	Mac Brown, and just like that, the young bandit from New Mexico became a household name.
1:20.9	As we all know, many an author and movie director have since taken their turn at the kid
1:25.2	over the years, and all because Walter Noble Burns stopped at the Coney Island Saloon one day to have a cold beer.
1:31.3	Now that's only part of the story.
1:33.3	Equally as interesting is how the pistol ended up in the bar in the first place.
1:37.3	It seems that Pat Garrett had a bit of a drinking problem, which as you know can be expensive.
1:42.3	As such, he borrowed money from the proprietor of the
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