Of all the legends from the days of gun slingers and desperados, no one fires our collective imagination

more than Billy the Kid.

Now maybe that's because no outlaw better blurred the lines between good and bad.

He's actually going to jail and he's probably going to be hanged and yet he's laughing

about it.

From his point of view, he would have been killed within a matter of days if he hadn't killed them first.

But at the same time, I think that's not a justification for murder.

If the law had not been so incredibly corrupt, he wouldn't be in this situation.

The kid had learned a hard truth about the way the world worked in New Mexico.

Just a few years earlier, he'd been a skinny orphan boy from New York City.

Calling themselves the regulators, they vowed to dispense

their own brand of justice.

Now Billy was the most feared man in New Mexico.

One of the things about the kid he was able to deceive people he was able to get him to think that he was inconsequential

And the sheriff returns to jail and there's no kid the sale sale's empty. The hallway is empty.

With that jailbreak, he's a wanted man at the age of 16.

Law completely broke down in Lincoln County. There was really no semblance of law and order. Every son of a

bitch up there wanted to kill somebody. He's the only one of the soldiers that was in every single skirmish, every fight, every face off, every no you don't.

He was there.

And he just kept getting better at it.

Billy had one capacity above others, and that was loyalty.

He was extremely loyal.

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