I’m 13 years old and I love the story and everything I love to study him and hear others like me talk so passionately about him as I. Rip the bad ass-Billy The Kid

RIP Fred Nolan 😞 You blazed a trail for us researchers with your work. You're books are a must read for any Billy the Kid enthusiast.

Nolan's epic Lincoln County War: A Documentary History is still one of my top few favorite old west books.

What an amazing cast of people you've gathered to speak about Billy the Kid. Superb!👍👍👍👍😎

What a wonderful group of educated folks on the subject of Billy the Kid. I loved all their insights and opinions.

Enjoyed the video very much! Long Live Billy the Kid!

Excellent program. ¡Gracias!

Boy what I'd give to have been with all those guys just to sit and listen

This was awesome because everybody that spoke, I could relate too. I was pulled in literally by the same concepts and I’d love to meet everyone speaking in this video. I have a bucket list and Lincoln County is on it, along with Tombstone. Such good info here. I love writing western stories and the old west is one of my favorite time periods.

It's funny, I think back many years ago when I gave a speech in college about Billy The Kid -- I argued in the speech , that Billy was quite a complicated figure and a lot of negative things said about him were wrong. I made him into more of a man of his times that stood for truth and right. When he took up the cause of Tunstall, that really showed what he was made of. I didn't get a very warm reception with my viewpoints then. Guess I was a little bit ahead of the curve.

Geez Bob. Please come up with another thirty minutes for at least a full hour. What a great show. It was fun seeing the places in Lincoln that I had been too. We ate and slept at The Wortley and wandered the Old Courthouse. What a fun show guys. Well done.

To all the fans of "Billy the Kid" i urge you to see the latest western call " Old Henry" 2021 with Tim Blake Nelson, i actually know Tim and his wonderful family! Great actor , Great guy!

Billy was a straight up rebel. Against all Authority!

Swear I heard Rolling Stones - Painted in black there in the beginning nice tune .😃 Fantastic 🤠 scenery. Take care Bob // Patrik 🥊❤️🥊

Thank you, Bob! This paints an interesting perspective on Billy the Kid through a variety of sources.

Fascinating documentary! Thank you for creating and sharing this.

Enjoyed the chat fellow regulators

Thank You!!!

Awesome, thanks for sharing this!

Most informative

I have both young guns film's and I've been a fan of Western films and legends

Outstanding series of interviews…thank you for sharing.

Thank you mr Bell, i loved it, and thanks to prof. Hutton , i also loved the apache wars .

My old granny used to put a lot of store in "gumption". Hard for me to believe she was born about the same year that the gunfight at the OK Corral took place. Oh, and she carried a gun.

@Fredric Nolan, Hey buddy greetings from Liverpool ,maxwell ,Wirral

excellent!

The Best video made on the kid . These people describe The effect of Billy like i felt it

If his side had won the range war we may not ever have heard of him that much

Has everyone been watching the new Epix series Billy The Kid? WOW it’s just awesome! I love it! Hope there’s a season 2! This was very interesting! Sounds like me! I just have such a passion for these old west figures! It drives me crazy sometimes that we truly don’t know if he was killed by Garrett. Maybe someday I’ll be the one to find the truth lol 😂 ps ive enjoyed over the years watching all the documentaries that everyone here has been in! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion this great subject we all love so much

Enjoyed the video Bob

good boy billy！

This is awesome content

It is always interesting to me to have the discussion of whether Billy the Kid was a "good guy" or a "bad guy." In territorial New Mexico- and particularly during the events that led to and included the Lincoln County War- exactly who IS a "good guy?" For all we know, maybe McSween and Tunstall were decent folk. Before Tunstall's murder, there is no record I've heard of that suggests otherwise. On the other hand, I don't know that anyone has argued that the Dolan/Murphy faction were anything but thugs of the sort that would readily compare to the 20th Century Italian mob. Billy, for all his early history of horse or cattle thievery, was a fairly petty criminal in a circumstance where he had few if any options, as it was for others in such circumstance. Particularly being so young and without family to steer him better. His first killing in Arizona is, by all accounts, legitimate self defense. But once Tunstall, perhaps Billy's only stable and healthy influence since being orphaned, is taken from him by an undeniably vicious, gang-like business and political machine, exactly what course does the young man have? While I suppose he could have left the area to look for a new opportunity, that brutality called out for a response. There was no real law available, with the Santa Fe Ring running much of the territory. He was just not the kind of person to walk away from a terrible wrong, no matter what it might cost him. Does anybody weep for Sheriff Brady, a cold blooded killer himself and pawn of the machine? Who among those Billy killed at that point were any better than he? Who was a "good guy?" And how many of us would at least like to think we would have been right along side with the Regulators had we experienced what they had? Maybe Billy the Kid was not a "good guy," but I don't see any evidence to suggest anyone else was either.

If I had the$$$ I would buy Billy's pic and Elvis jumpsuit & Jimmy Hendrix flying V guitar if I had the money so I don't blame anybody that has the money it's a fascinating part of our American history. I've always loved the Billy the Kid story. Classic case of little guy against the big guy in the Santa Fe ring. The bad boy against the evil men. 🤠 👢

Great video and channel.

He wasn't a 'gunfighter' just a common criminal whose deeds have been amplified out of proportion.

Billy the kid is my all time favorite out of anyone in history and my second is wild Bill and third is Doc Holiday.

Amazing video enjoyed the Hell out of it Mr. Bell, how can I order the doc, wyatt, Billy book you wrote thanks for all your work SIR!!!!

There was never a wanted poster on the Kid. Only a blurb in a Santa Fe newspaper.

Hello Bob

Chano Silva's interview in the late 1990s contradicts much of the narrative found here. Chano was a Marine in WWII on Okinawa and the grandson of Jesus Silva one of Billy's pallbearers and the brother of the infamous Vincente Silva in Las Vegas, NM.

Billy wasn't a murderer? "Hi Bob, (boom boom).

My grandpa was a huge western movie fan. Mostly of John Wayne movies. But he had others on VHS and I guess maybe I was about 8 years old and I watched the 1943 film The Outlaw with Grandpa. Of course after the movie was over my grandpa told me the real story of Billy The Kid. Grandpa and myself included were never believers of the whole Brushy Bill Roberts story. I always wanted to believe that Billy lived to be an old man. But sadly I never found anything to convince me that he did. I believe that he did die at the young age of 21. But I am curious Bob is the book The Death of Billy The Kid by John W. Poe very historically accurate? I have wanted to buy but I enjoy reading the true stories not fiction about Billy the Kid.

Rip uncle drew gomber

The more I learned about Billy the Kid, the more interested I became. It almost seems he was cursed to suffer since childhood. He had to fight to survive as a child and then a young man. I love history and I considered what I would do or in his situation. Would I be brave or would I just leave the state after John Tunstils murder? He's a tragic figure in American history.

If this were held today Bell would invite "Q" to speak.

Hey Bob, what do you think of Dave Stamey's song Skies of Lincoln County?

William Henry McCarty, alias Kid Antrim, alias Billy Bonney, alias Chivato, alias Kid Bonney, alias the Kid, was not known as "Billy The Kid" until a newspaper invented the name during the last year of his life. Bonney was his immigrant mother's maiden name. McCarty was her first husband's name. Antrim was the Kid's stepfather's name.

Billy the kid lives on & on greatest legend of the wild west... then it's Wyatt Earp

A fellow as famous as Billy the Kid with only one known picture - very ironic. Billy was the American version of Robin Hood. I think he was an hero not an outlaw.

Can't believe everything happened before he were 21, I really think he lived on . I guessing he was brushy, it has to be brushy?

i have a story relating to Billy if any of you historians want to hear it....

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Thx.

Thanks for posting this. 1. And Is Brushy Bill Roberts Billy The Kid ? :) - 2. The expensive photo is clearly skewed and you get a weird head from Henry, i mean Billy. Or not ?😀

I think it's really sad that some people who are hailed as experts are given a platform to give their opinions where the general public believes that some of these so called experts are telling them historically accurate facts and they don't know anymore about history than a rock. When some other knowledgeable people are in the same company as these so called experts it ruins their credibility. I would recommend people who want the truth go to these historical places and talk to real people in those areas and talk to them and weed out the good from the bad. Then these experts won't be able to fool people into believing they actually know something when they really don't. The people who live this history and this lifestyle cringe when we hear these people talk.

my hero

Did Bob Bozbell do the cob

Billy the Kid Epix channel

Claude Dallas may be the last Western folk hero.

Was Billy the Kid a soldier for Quantrill?

The women in this video remind me of those women who fall in love with serial killers.

Wait they found the photo in 1986 and people who know I’m saying it wasn’t a good picture of him? Who was alive in 1986 who knew Billy the kid?

It would have been nice if this video actually told the story!

I think people relate to Billy because the killings were vengeful and for many people justified. They were in a war and the killing was give and take. Billy was no worse than any of the members of both factions. He was good humored, and personable and people liked him easily. He liked to sing and dance and enjoyed music. He was also mean as a snake against his enemies. He never robbed a bank or held up a stage. He was a cattle rustler, but many did the same thing. He should have left the area when he last escaped. He had friends and help which could have assisted his leaving. That is the psychological enigma. Why didnt he run ?

I wish these historians would weigh in on the Brushy Bill Roberts angle that never seems to go away and put it to rest once and for all.

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koch bros bought it ...

Wonder what kind of Mexican food, if any, did Billy eat.

I'll make you famous.

Women love outlaws, pirates and bad guys … like Clinton and B. Husain O.

Those women are obviously turned on talking about Billy the kid.

$2 MILLION, for that? God, too many people have too much money laying around collecting dust.

what's all the yelling?

There is not evidence enough to convincingly posit that there ever was a “Billy the kid”. Sort of like Jesus.

Seems like this was produced to boost the careers of gomber's wife and the broad that painted the terrible picture. She's probably the professor's grunter. Sad how geezers are easily manipulated with the threst of loneliness.

Billy the Kid is the most overrated Old West Outlaw, ever. They have Young Guns 3 in the works. An outlaw whose story fascinated me more was "Deacon" Jim Miller. Others more interesting are the James-Younger Gang, the whole family; Bill Doolin of Doolin-Dalton Gang, Belle Starr, the Dalton Gang, Butch and Sundance, Kid Curry, and I'd even put Doc Holliday and Luke Short up there. Then Billy the Kid. Can't forget interesting lesser knowns like Frank "Buckskin" Leslie, Cherokee Bill, and the Rufus Buck Gang. My favorite Lawdogs are Bass Reeves, Wyatt Earp and his brothers, Bat Masterson and his brother, The Three Guardsmen (Bill Tilghman, Heck Thomas, and Chris Madsen), Tom Tucker, and the Texas Rangers. My favorite Cowboy is Bill Pickett.

What's the big deal with this production? They're all just repeating themselves over and over again. They're just saying "Oh, Billy was a mystery and yet he was blah blah blah." Nothing new. What a waste of time!

There was never a wanted poster on the Kid. Only a blurb in a Santa Fe newspaper.