1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to the Short Stuff. I'm Josh and there's 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: Chuck and we're Chucked and this is short stuff, so 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: let's go. So we're talking today about the death of 4 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 1: Billy the Kid, which I thought I learned from a 5 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 1: Billy Joel song called the Ballad of Billy the Kid. 6 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: It seems like an appropriate place to learn it. Great song. 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: But it turns out that Billy Joel stopped at the 8 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: what was to be the hanging of Billy the Kid, 9 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: and growing up, I thought that's how his story ended. Boy, 10 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: you are misinformed, buddy. Yeah, I mean the song literally 11 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 1: stops with the townfolk in their kin like the c 12 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: came rolling in to watch the hanging of Billy the 13 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 1: Kid and there's one more course and that's it. You 14 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 1: know Now that makes me question if whether we really 15 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: did start the fire. Hey, did you see that video 16 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: of him playing the piano on the street the other day? 17 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: And uh wherever he's from Island. I did see a 18 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: tweet that mentioned it in um link that I surmised 19 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: from the headline what had happened. So yeah, basically it 20 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: was pretty neat. Someone was throwing out of piano and 21 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: Billy Joel goes over there and he's playing it, and 22 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:15,839 Speaker 1: he's like, hey, it's a good piano. It's out of tune, 23 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: but he's got good actions. The petals work. You said, 24 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: somebody should donate this thing. It sounds like he's like 25 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: Rodney Dangerfield. Now, well at least not too far off. 26 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,119 Speaker 1: So um No, it turns out that Billy the Kid. 27 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: Everything I know about Billy the Kid I learned from 28 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: Young Guns and Billy the Kid didn't die at all. 29 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:35,399 Speaker 1: He went on to live to about a hundreds something 30 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: years old in New Mexico. Um, because he escaped and 31 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: his death was faked. That's right. It was was that 32 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: Emilia was he Billy? Yes? Yes? Yeah? And uh man, 33 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: that was a great movie to me. Billy the Kid 34 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: is Chris Christofferson from the Great Great Sam Pecumpalm movie 35 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. I never saw that one. Well, 36 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: there's two versions, and see if you can watch the 37 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: director's cut, because the other ones a mess. Oh is 38 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: that right? It's like a Hurricanes episode. Yeah, And funny 39 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: enough you mentioned Hurricane. Bob Dylan is in that movie 40 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: and does the soundtrack and score. Who does he play 41 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: in the movie? Let me guess the Undertaker. No, something 42 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: like that. I think he's just like a stranger in 43 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 1: town that does a couple of things. It's not a 44 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: big part Sam Peck. And Paul was a Bob Dylan fan. Sure, 45 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: he did tons of drugs and was an alcoholic, sure, 46 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: but Bob Dylan fan. Yeah. Man, huh. Alright, So can 47 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: we get going on this? This is a short stuff. 48 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: We wasted three and a half minutes. Well, we'll just 49 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:41,639 Speaker 1: say this, Billy the Kid died. That's that. That's right. 50 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: I think we should kind of reverse this a little 51 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: bit and talk a little bit about Billy the Kid first. Yeah, agreed. 52 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: Did you know he was a born New Yorker? I 53 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: did because I'm kind of into these old West dudes, 54 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: and I've researched some of them to certain degrees. And 55 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: he was born William Henry McCarty Jr. Uh. And if 56 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,639 Speaker 1: you've heard the name William Bonnie, that was a name 57 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: he went by a lot. I think you've heard William 58 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: Bonnie a lot more, probably than McCarty. Yeah, for sure. 59 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: I actually had never heard Henry McCarty until today. Yeah. 60 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: And he was orphaned at fourteen and became one of 61 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: the Lincoln County regulators. Yeah, and so regulators will sound 62 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: familiar if one you are a Young Guns fan or 63 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,799 Speaker 1: if you're a Nate Dog and Warren g fan. Either way, 64 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: the regulators were kind of a group of hired hands 65 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: for a guy and hired guns, I believe too young ones, 66 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: um for a guy named Tunstall, I believe down in 67 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: Lincoln County, New Mexico. And Um, toun Stall was killed 68 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: from what I understand, fairly unfairly um, and that kind 69 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: of set Billy the Kid and his his posse of 70 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: regulators off on a bit of a killing spree. Started 71 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: what's known as the Lincoln County War. That's right. And uh, 72 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: during one of those skirmishes there was some murders that happened. 73 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: And Pat Garrett, who was a sheriff in New Mexico 74 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: played by James Coburn in the Bob Dylan movie played 75 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: by Bob Dylan and Young Guns, Uh he was. I 76 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: haven't seen Young Guns a long time. That was a 77 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: big college movie for us. I need to see that again. 78 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: It was like it didn't come out when you were 79 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 1: in college. Sure, No, yeah, I don't think so. Look 80 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: it up and I'll keep going all right live corrections. 81 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: So Pat Garrett formed a posse. UH captured Billy and 82 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: that part of the Billy Joel song checks out, and 83 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: he was sentenced to hang. They captured him at Stinking Springs, 84 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 1: New Mexico, and while he was awaiting his execution, he 85 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:55,919 Speaker 1: was kept in a it wasn't even a prison, it 86 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: was a room, a locked room at the Lincoln County Courthouse. Uh. 87 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 1: I found this article says too, I heard, I saw 88 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: there were five other prisoners. Um. Regardless, there were other 89 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 1: prisoners being guarded by some armed men. Uh. One of 90 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: them was an enemy of Billy's named Bob Ollinger. And 91 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: at one point he took all the rest of the 92 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: guys over to a hotel across the street to eat, 93 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 1: left Billy there under the charge of Deputy James bell Man. 94 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 1: These are some great old timey Old West names, aren't they. Oh? Yeah, 95 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 1: when was Young Guns out? So if you if you 96 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: were in college at age seventeen, then I'm impressed. I 97 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 1: said it was a big movie in college. I didn't 98 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: say it came out in college. I asked you, than 99 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: came out in college? And you said, oh yeah, I 100 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 1: thought you mean, was it out in college? As if 101 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 1: it came out after that thought that that's what I meant. Now, 102 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:52,720 Speaker 1: it came out in high school, but we watched the 103 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 1: heck out of it in college. I should have that, 104 00:05:55,200 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: should have said. So James Bell is watching Billy. Billy says, uh, hey, gout, 105 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: he's a bathroom. Can you take me out to the outhouse? 106 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: He said, I really gotta go. He shackled, his arms 107 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 1: and legs are shackled. Take him out use the bathroom. 108 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: On the way back end, they're going up the steps. 109 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: Billy's in front, and the account I read was that 110 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: he ducked around a blind corner, got his hands out, 111 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: and then smashed this guy in the head with his 112 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 1: arm irons. The guy went, what Billy pulled his gun 113 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: from his holster. The other guys holter, Yeah, of course 114 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: Billy didn't have a gun on him. Why would they 115 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: do that. He's like, why didn't I think they're using 116 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 1: that first? They're like, well, he's in handcuffs, just go 117 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,479 Speaker 1: ahead and keep his gun on him. And so he 118 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: pulls the guy's gun on him, and the guy tries 119 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: to run and Billy shoots him dead in the back. 120 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: And so now roughly we reached the end of the 121 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: Billy Joel song, which I think is a good time 122 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: for an ad break. What do you think, Sure, we'll 123 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: be right back. M alright, Chuck, We're back. And um, 124 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: Billy the kid has just shot the deputy that's in 125 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: charge of watching him. Another deputy runs back, uh or 126 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: runs back from the hotel and okay, Olinger, um apparently 127 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: is he's running and he hears his name and looks up, 128 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: and Billy the kids got Olinger's own rifle on him 129 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: and shoots him dead like a dog in the street. 130 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: So Billy the kids killed two people. Now he's out 131 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: of his shackles and he grabs a horse and high 132 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: tails it out of town for a life on the 133 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: run that would last about four more months. Yeah, that's 134 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: um the only dispute I have with that accoun on us. 135 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: It supposedly took him about an hour to get out 136 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: of his leg shackles with an axe, and I guess 137 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: no one just came up there. When Olinger came to 138 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: find him, Billy actually yelled down, look up, old boy, 139 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: and see what you get. Wow, And that's the last 140 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: words that he heard. So Billy's on the run at 141 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: this point uh, And obviously Pat Garrett has be in 142 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: his bonnet to go get him again. Well, sure, he's 143 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,079 Speaker 1: the Sheriff of Lincoln County and Billy the kid, who's 144 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 1: become one of the most notorious bandits in the country 145 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: has just escaped out from under his watch. So yeah, 146 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 1: there's a reward. Well, sure there's a reward too. So 147 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: Pat Garrett had this um history of lying in wait, 148 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: in ambushing people and shooting them, whether they were ready 149 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: to shoot back or not, killing them very frequently. He'd 150 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,319 Speaker 1: done it before, and um, he wanted to do it again. 151 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: He went to go look for Billy a kid. Um. 152 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: Like we said, he he made his way as an outlaw, 153 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: like a double outlaw by this point, um on the 154 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: lamb for good four months before he was caught up 155 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 1: with I think still in New Mexico in um July 156 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: of eight one, and he apparently was staying at the 157 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: house or nearby the house of a friend named Peter Maxwell. 158 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: And Peter Maxwell had a younger sister that Billy the 159 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: Kid was sweet on, and Peter Maxwell didn't like that 160 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: Billy the Kid was sweet on her. And by sweet 161 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: on her, I mean that they were having extramarital sexual relations, 162 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 1: and Peter didn't like that because he was planning on 163 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: marrying off his his sister to a rich Land baron nearby, 164 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 1: and Billy the Kid was kind of toying with that possibility. 165 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:54,319 Speaker 1: Um so Peter Maxwell is in this kind of mindset 166 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:59,320 Speaker 1: allegedly when Pat Garrett shows up. That's right, Garrett shows up. 167 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: This isn't well, he doesn't show up at night, but 168 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 1: eventually night falls, and uh, well, actually maybe he did 169 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: show up because supposedly he he found him asleep. Uh 170 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 1: Pete Maxwell, that is, And Garrett very presumptuously goes into 171 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 1: his room and sits down next to him and says, Pete, 172 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: wake up, wake up. And then he wakes up, and 173 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 1: he says, where's that Billy the Kid? And as the 174 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:28,719 Speaker 1: story goes, and we're gonna poke holes at it in 175 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 1: a second, right, then Billy the Kid actually walks into 176 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: that room, that dog gone room, and has a gun 177 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: and a knife because he had just went to cut 178 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 1: some meat off. He was hungry, I guess after some 179 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 1: he had post coital hunger pains and carves some meat 180 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: off and was from a yearling supposedly and had just 181 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: eaten a little bit, and so he has a knife 182 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: and a gun and can't really see him the dark 183 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 1: and starts going Keyennis Keiennis Spanish for who is it? 184 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: Who's there? And Maxwell or I'm sorry. Pat Garrett supposedly 185 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: recognizes the voice as Billy in the dark and shoots 186 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 1: him dead. Yeah, and I just want to make sure 187 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 1: we're all on the same page. Heart Yearling is a 188 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: young horse. He was after some horse meat to eat. 189 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:21,839 Speaker 1: That's right. So this was the death as far as 190 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 1: Pat Garrett said of Billy the Kid. But like we 191 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: said before, Pat Garrett already kind of had developed a 192 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: reputation of ambushing people, of lying in wait, catching him 193 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: off guard when they least expected it, And even in 194 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: this story that he told this this is the official 195 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 1: line that Pat Garrett told in the biography he wrote 196 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: about Billy the Kid, Um, that that was how he died. 197 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: But even that, which is kind of on the edges 198 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: of fair um is disputed, is probably untrue, and that 199 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 1: the truth is probably involves even more of an ambush 200 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: and more surprise, and even less of Billy the Kid 201 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: being able to defend himself than that. Yeah, I think 202 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 1: the other version is that he was actually ambushed and 203 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: set up by Maxwell because he didn't like him being 204 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: with Paulita, his little sister, and basically said, hey man, 205 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: it's uh, it's all going down here, and here's your 206 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: here's your chance to come over to Fort Sumner and 207 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: take care of this kid once and for all. And 208 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: so he did so, and a lot of people say 209 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: that's how it really went down. And then and then 210 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: he tipped off pat Garrett, right, yeah, and that he 211 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 1: in fact even changed his age. Who was he was 212 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 1: supposedly like eighteen or nineteen when he was shot dead 213 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: and said no, no, no no, he was really twenty one. 214 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: So I didn't have this extra judicial killing him some kid. 215 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:46,199 Speaker 1: He was a full grown man and it was just 216 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: happenstance that he happened to walk in the room where 217 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 1: I was sitting there with a loaded gun. Yeah, And 218 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: the other people historians think, like, probably Billy the kid 219 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 1: didn't walk in with a gun and a knife looking 220 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: for some yearling meat. He probably walked in fully unarmed, 221 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 1: expecting Pete Maxwell's sister to be waiting for him there, 222 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: and instead pet Garrett and his gun was waiting for 223 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 1: him there. So he probably was fully ambushed and killed murdered. 224 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: I guess it's the other way to put it in 225 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: that that's probably how Billy the Kid died. Either way, 226 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 1: he died at the other end of Pat Garrett's gun. 227 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: That much we know about, right, even though there are 228 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: were and have been rumors over the years that uh, 229 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 1: he was in cahoots with Pat Garrett and he let 230 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 1: him escape, and that he lived to be a ripe 231 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:35,680 Speaker 1: old age. There have been exhumations, they've been DNA tists 232 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: over the years. Obviously, nothing has ever come back with 233 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 1: any sort of conclusion. Uh, Young guns seem to be 234 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: pretty concluding. I got a little cherry on top two 235 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 1: if you're interested, let's hear it. You know that very 236 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 1: famous picture of Billy the Kid, sort of one of two, 237 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: although the second one they aren't quite sure at him. 238 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:58,319 Speaker 1: But there's that one, very very famous perotype, which is 239 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 1: a picture on like a metal plate. Um that photo, 240 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: that farotype, the original plate was bought for uh two 241 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,959 Speaker 1: point three million dollars by none other than William Coke, 242 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: who's that the Koke brothers. Oh, yeah, I forgot. He's 243 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 1: super into like Old West stuff apparently, Yeah, I forgot 244 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: about that. Well, that's pretty interesting, quite a quite a 245 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 1: quite quite a cherry on top. I'm glad a millionaire 246 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: gets what he wants in the end. As for Garrett Uh, 247 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 1: he was originally denied the five hundred dollar reward. A 248 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: bunch of the city's felt bad for him and raised 249 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 1: seven thousand dollars, and then a year later there was 250 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: I think an injunction or a vote or something where 251 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: he actually finally got the reward. So in today's dollars, supposedly, 252 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: if that all checks out, he got about two hundred 253 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: and something thousand dollars for killing Billy the kids. He's 254 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: like that barista from Starbucks who refused service to that 255 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: woman You wouldn't wear a mask. Now they're rich, right Dan, 256 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: I don't serve anyone coffee without a mask. There you gifts, 257 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: We'll start to go fund me for Chuck everybody. Um, well, 258 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: that's it for short stuff, right, Chuck. That's right? Get 259 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 1: up Stuff You should know is a production of iHeart 260 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 1: Radios How Stuff Works. For more podcasts for my heart Radio, 261 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: visit the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you 262 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 1: listen to your favorite shows.