Henry McCarty was known as Billy the Kid. The most wanted man when he was alive he killed so many people. When Henry McCarty was a kid he grew up without his father and he was raised by his mother. They lived in New York for sometime then they moved to Indianapolis. When Henry was getting older his mother married a guy named William Antrim in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He died when two sheriffs showed up at his house and shot him.
Henry McCarty as known as Billy The Kid had no dad. He grew up with his mom.A few years later his mom became sick and died and when that happened Henry and William didn’t see eye to eye William didn’t want anything to do with him. Henry moved out and he began to live in a boarding home with other kids his age. That's
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His first crime was when he robbed a Chinese laundry place. He got caught and got put into jail and he escaped and was caught by the guards. This wasn't the only time in his life that he got sent to jail, as he was in jail all the time. From here on in his life becomes worse he wants to go out and rob people or companies and kill people.
These two brothers who were cops were walking through the woods hunting for deer and they passed some bandits and one brother wanted to go because he knew that they weren't good people. They headed back to town and they were followed by the bandits and Billy the Kid. Billy the Kid said that if they did not surrender then he will kill them both, so they surrendered. When Billy the Kid and his posse were around they were killing people or stealing from
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In December of 1880, Henry was nicknamed Billy the Kid in a article in Las Vegas the article got around and he started to be known all over the country. The last nine years he was living in New Mexico and was where his mom got married to William so he still called it his home. After his death even decades later he is still talked about in New Mexico by many people. He was dead but not to many people forgot what he done while he was alive and living in New Mexico or just his whole