# Billy the Kid

> An orphaned teenager who killed his way into the mythology of the American West before he turned twenty-one. The nine murders — four his alone — and a jailbreak that left two deputies dead made him a newspaper sensation from New Mexico to New York while he was still alive.

*American outlaw and gunfighter (1859–1881)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Other
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1859-11-23
- **Died:** 1881-07-14
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Henry McCarty was fifteen when his parents died. At sixteen he stole food, then robbed a laundry, then fled across territorial lines into Arizona. After killing a blacksmith in an altercation in August 1877, he started calling himself William H. Bonney and drifted back into New Mexico with a gang of cattle rustlers. The Lincoln County War of 1878 pulled him in deeper — riding with the Regulators, he was charged with three killings including Sheriff William J. Brady. Sheriff Pat Garrett caught him in December 1880, and by April 1881 Bonney stood trial, was convicted of Brady's murder, and sentenced to hang. On April 28 he shot his way out of jail, killing two deputies. Garrett found him in Fort Sumner ten weeks later and put a bullet in him. He was twenty-one, and already the subject of dozens of newspaper stories that turned a short brutal run into a legend that never quit.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 66.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 15.0 / 100  (trend: BREAKOUT)
- **Historical depth:** 31.8 / 100
- **Now attention:** 100.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 65.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/ch0011663/ (@ch0011663)

## Topics
#Business Professionals, #Other, #United States, #Americas, #19th Century

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