The Real Billy the Kid Revealed

Author Jim Johnson has been intrigued with the Old West its lore and its legends all of his life. His interest began while watching the old black and white western movies made in the 1940s and 50s. Over the years he has collected and read thousands of nonfiction books and magazines on western outlaws and lawmen. Today his library overflows with these nonfiction western books and magazines. Jim read these books and magazine articles thoroughly and with caution. He was amazed at the contradictions not only within books but between books and some of the fiction added to glamorize the books. His research over the last 25-30 years has taken him across the southwest including Arizona New Mexico Texas and Oklahoma and the midwest including Kansas Illinois and Indiana. He has copies of thousands of documents from archives government records and internet records. He has also used online sources If you would like to contact me please email me at texasjaj@hotmail.com. Keywords: albuquerque alias paco anaya arizona arkansas bill williams james bell billy the kid biography blazer's mill brazil brewer henry brown brushy bill buckshot roberts buffalo mccarty bowdre burns cahill canton celsa coe cowboy deluvina dolan dudley el paso jesse evans fiction fountain grant stanton sumner jim french frontier gutierrez garrett georgetown globe grant hamilton henry antrim antrum hall hamilton hefner hico history hughes kip chisum mckinney john miller simpson tunstall tunstill jameson bob jones john jones joseph knight vegas lincoln mason maxwell mccarty mckinney mcsween mesilla middleton morrison mexico murphy nolan bob olinger folliard o'folliard west outlaw panhandle peppin poe portales prescott pueblo roberts real regulators ringo ringold james bass younger roswell rudabaugh ruidoso rustler salazar santa fe scurlock brady silver