Born William Henry McCarty Jr. in New York ... “Ben-Hur”), and numerous hired hands and gunslingers including Billy the Kid. For his part in the conflict, Billy the Kid was sentenced in ...
When Wallace attempted to end the fighting by offering amnesty to all involved, Billy the Kid responded. "I have no wish to fight anymore," McCarty wrote in a letter to Governor Wallace.
This photograph was only the second officially verified image of Billy the Kid in existence. Billy the Kid, whose real name was Henry McCarty alias William H. Bonney, was born in 1859 and died in 1881 ...