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Billy the Kid Billy the Kid was an American frontier outlaw who participated in the Lincoln County War in New Mexico Territory and became one of the most mythologized figures of the American West, credited with killing eight men, though historians debate the precise number. He was captured by Sheriff Pat Garrett in December 1880, convicted of murder, and sentenced to hang, but escaped from the Lincoln County Jail in April 1881, killing two deputies. He was tracked down and killed by Garrett at Fort Sumner, New Mexico Territory, on July 14, 1881, at approximately 21 years of age.
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Billy the Kid was an American frontier outlaw who participated in the Lincoln County War in New Mexico Territory and became one of the most mythologized figures of the American West, credited with killing eight men, though historians debate the precise number. He was captured by Sheriff Pat Garrett in December 1880, convicted of murder, and sentenced to hang, but escaped from the Lincoln County Jail in April 1881, killing two deputies. He was tracked down and killed by Garrett at Fort Sumner, New Mexico Territory, on July 14, 1881, at approximately 21 years of age.
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Born in New York City, United States
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