I thought that pretty much everyone knew who Billy the Kid was, but as I have told people what I was doing my essay on, I have gotten many confused looks. This was surprising to me. I thought that everyone at least would recognize the name, but boy was I wrong. Since no one knows who this western outlaw legend is, I guess I will just start off with the basic boring information.
Billy the Kid was said to be a very handsome man. He had a slim physique, sandy blond hair, and blue eyes. He wore a signature sugar-loaf sombrero hat with a wide decorative band. He was known to be charming and polite one minute and outraged and violent the next. Billy’s quixotic nature was very efficient in heists. William Henry McCarty’s birthdate and birthplace is very controversial and there has been a great deal of confusion about it, but historians have agreed upon the year 1859, but no …show more content…
In late 1949, William Morrison caught word that Billy The Kid was, in fact, not dead. He was living in Hico, Texas under the alias Ollie P. Bill Roberts or ‘Brushy’ Bill. Morrison tracked him down, and the two went on a road trip to New Mexico. Brushy reminisced along the way, and Morrison believed what he said. Morrison did admit Brushy got some of the facts wrong, but he truly believed Brushy was Billy the Kid. Brushy told Morrison that he would only reveal the whole truth of his life as Billy the Kid if he got him the full pardon he was promised 70 years ago. On November 29, 1950, Morrison arranged a meeting with the governor of New Mexico to request a full pardon on the believed Billy the kid. After Brushy’s testimony, Governor Mabry stated, “I am taking no action, now or ever, on this application for a pardon for Billy the Kid because I do not believe this man to be Billy the Kid.” And that was that. Brushy Bill returned to Texas and died four weeks later. Though the governor didn’t believe in Brushy, many people to this day
Billy the Kid was said to be a very handsome man. He had a slim physique, sandy blond hair, and blue eyes. He wore a signature sugar-loaf sombrero hat with a wide decorative band. He was known to be charming and polite one minute and outraged and violent the next. Billy’s quixotic nature was very efficient in heists. William Henry McCarty’s birthdate and birthplace is very controversial and there has been a great deal of confusion about it, but historians have agreed upon the year 1859, but no …show more content…
In late 1949, William Morrison caught word that Billy The Kid was, in fact, not dead. He was living in Hico, Texas under the alias Ollie P. Bill Roberts or ‘Brushy’ Bill. Morrison tracked him down, and the two went on a road trip to New Mexico. Brushy reminisced along the way, and Morrison believed what he said. Morrison did admit Brushy got some of the facts wrong, but he truly believed Brushy was Billy the Kid. Brushy told Morrison that he would only reveal the whole truth of his life as Billy the Kid if he got him the full pardon he was promised 70 years ago. On November 29, 1950, Morrison arranged a meeting with the governor of New Mexico to request a full pardon on the believed Billy the kid. After Brushy’s testimony, Governor Mabry stated, “I am taking no action, now or ever, on this application for a pardon for Billy the Kid because I do not believe this man to be Billy the Kid.” And that was that. Brushy Bill returned to Texas and died four weeks later. Though the governor didn’t believe in Brushy, many people to this day