Henry McCarty (William H. Bonney, "Billy the Kid")
He was a legend during his life, and when we are thinking the tale of the young man, who became criminal, and who died by the hand of the sheriff, that story has raised many legends, what is not covering, that this man was one of the worst and most feared outlaws in history. The story tells that Henry McCarty (1)(1859?-1881) was "Billy the Kid". But there are many other legends about this man.
Somebody has said, that the man, who has born in New York couldn't ride and shoot like "Billy", but who was this man anyway? How he thought that he could explain money, what he got from robberies. There were many tales about that outlaw, and some of them were created for popular culture.
The thing, what grows the myth of the "Billy the Kid" was that this young man killed 21 men during his life, and then he was shot by sheriff Pat Garrett at the age of 21, and that means that "Billy the Kid" shot man for each of his life year. But then we can see things, what were behind this myth. He was young and inexperienced, and there was something, that made him believe a little bit too much about himself.
Young men like "Billy the Kid" are good targets for prosecutions, and when we are thinking about his identity, there is a possibility that real "Henry McCarty" shot by other outlaws, and then somebody else took his place. The thing is that he was born in New York, and his mother died in tuberculosis in the year 1874. After that, Billy's father left that boy, and that thing caused that this young man started to make crimes.
Because Billy's mother died when he was 15, that caused very deep shock in the mind of that boy. And maybe killing the man at the age of 12, because of that man degraded his mother was a thing, what he created in his head for making himself look tougher and impress the other people. The reality is that who said that Henry McCarty was the "Billy the Kid", who became the nightmare of the wild west.
So how many men "Billy" himself killed? The answer is that was some kind of evidence except the tales of the other outlaws that "Billy the Kid" really shot men, except as the member of the greater group? So who says that bullets came from Billy's gun. When we are looking at things like Lincoln County Sheriff William J. Brady(2), who was shot in the ambush, where Billy the Kid was involved, the question is, who is the witness?
The reputation of the "Billy the Kid" was caused, because of that man involved in the "Lincoln county war" (3), which was a series of acts of revenge and counter-revenges between the years 1878-1881. Most of his violent actions "Billy the Kid" made during that thing.
The series of gunfights were caused because of the monopoly of one businessman got the competitor, and both sides hired the groups of gunmen, and the "Billy the Kid" took part in the one group called "Regulators". That story you can read from annex three. After incidents between those competitors, Billy the Kid was shot to death.
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