On This Day In History
@OTDIH · 1:28
November 23rd, 1859: Billy the Kid was born
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It is said that in 1876, at the age of 17, Billy murdered a group of Apache Indians in the Guadalupe Mountains, and shortly after that would kill a blacksmith in Camp Grant, Arizona. Billy would continue his life of crime during the Lincoln County War. During this time, Billy the Kid added more and more men to his loyal posse, murdered Lincoln's Sheriff and went on the run for two years. The replacement Sheriff then arrested Billy
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