Brushy Bill is a Lying Liar

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

The outlaw Billy the Kid was allegedly killed at the age of 21 by Sheriff Pat Garrett in the year 1881. Skip ahead another 70 years and you have an elderly man known as Brushy Bill Roberts coming forward shattering the common historical narrative. He claimed to be the kid, said that he had escaped Pat Garrett all of them years before and had been living under the radar ever since. Brushy - with the help of an attorney named William V. Morrison - spent around two years compiling evidence, conducting interviews, researching, documenting all kinds of stuff for the purpose of both proving these claims and obtaining a pardon for Mr. Roberts; the same pardon that Billy the Kid was promised back in the day. Brushy was able to obtain a meeting with the then Governor of New Mexico but it was a no use. The whole ordeal was a media circus and Roberts ended up having a stroke right there in the Governor’s mansion. Less than a month later on December 27th, 1950, Roberts would suffer a fatal heart attack and needless to say, the pardon never came. And we’ve been arguing about the man’s true identity ever since! Brushy Bill has piqued my curiosity since I was a little kid, ever since I first watched Young Guns 2. My friends and I played Young Guns at recess. I owned more than one copy of the Bon Jovi Soundtrack over the years and I’m excited beyond words to see Young Guns part 3 on the big screen when it finally comes out – more on that towards the end of this episode. I can’t stress this enough - I WANT Brushy Bill to be Billy the Kid. I truly do. I’m not some sort of wild west grinch just trying to suck the fun out of everything. It would be so cool if arguably the most famous outlaw of all time had really escaped death and lived to be an old man. If we could prove that it’d be massive! Unfortunately, I don’t think it can be proven. Matter of fact, I’m pretty positive the opposite is true. It’s my opinion that this episode will demonstrate, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Brushy Bill Roberts was NOT Billy the Kid. Abandon all hope and join me if you dare! My name’s Josh and you’re listening to the Wild West Extravaganza! Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ Check out my website! https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Book & Gear Recommendations - https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza/list/YEHGNY7KFAU7 Brushy Bill Roberts Original Episode - https://www.wildwestextra.com/4-brushy-bill-roberts/ Confessionals Podcast featuring Daniel A. Edwards - https://www.theconfessionalspodcast.com/theconfessionals/307-billy-the-kid-the-man-who-died-twice Billy the Kid: An Autobiography: The Story of Brushy Bill Roberts by Daniel A. Edwards - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692437258?asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.YEHGNY7KFAU7 Alias Billy the Kid by Morrison & Sonnichsen - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692534040?asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.YEHGNY7KFAU7 Santa Rosa NM Supplemental Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd34jMnXMFU Blood and Dust Podcast featuring Brett L. Hall - https://open.spotify.com/episode/29w5ZlvON8n86XKyTQpshx The Real Billy the Kid aka Brushy Bill Roberts by Brett L. Hall - https://www.amazon.ae/Real-Billy-Brushy-Bill-Roberts/dp/1257177133 Brett Hall’s YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/brushybret/videos Brushy Bill Proof that his Claim was a Hoax by Roy L. Haws - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1632930552?asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.YEHGNY7KFAU7 Brushy Bill Discussion Forum - https://brushybill.proboards.com/ Bear Grease – The Myth of the Southern Mountain Lion - https://www.themeateater.com/listen/bear-grease/ep-1-the-myth-of-the-southern-mountain-lion Young Guns 3 - https://www.looper.com/598520/guns-3-alias-billy-the-kid-release-date-cast-plot/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	If you're listening to this, then there's a good chance you've already heard the episode I
0:33.6	recorded a few years ago on Brushy Bill Roberts, back when this monstrosity was known as the
0:38.9	Bloody Beaver podcast. Don't worry, this is not a re-recording. It's a follow-up, sort of an
0:44.9	epilogue. Now, ever since I put out that original episode, I've gotten a ton of comments, complaints,
0:50.9	questions, insults, threats, you name it.
1:02.3	I get occasional emails to this day with people asking if I've heard other various aspects of Brushy Bill's story or other pieces of evidence.
1:06.1	And to be honest, it's the subject I've always wanted to return to.
1:11.3	So I figured why not record another episode to attempt to address or answer some of these questions and comments, as well as to lay out my position in a more of a clear manner.
1:15.5	If you have not heard the original Brushy Bill episode, I will link to it here in the show
1:20.1	notes. If you're brand new to the subject, you might want to give that a listen first
1:24.2	as I really delve into who the man was, his origin story, all that good
1:28.3	stuff. This is more of a companion episode. I've done a bit more additional research over the last
1:33.8	couple of years and a lot of reading, so no matter where you stand, I think you'll find this interesting.
1:39.3	And hopefully you'll hear some stuff you didn't already know. That said, I'll reiterate a few
1:43.9	things before we
1:44.7	began. Brushy Bill has picked my curiosity since I was a little kid, ever since I first watched
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