Billy the Kid: An Autobiography: The Story of Brushy Bill Roberts $18.00 Paperback $25.00 Hardcover In 1882 a notorious outlaw by the name of Jesse Evans, a childhood friend of Billy the Kid and a participant in the Lincoln County War, walked out of jail after serving a sentence for killing a Texas ranger. Author Jim Johnson has been intrigued with the Old West, its lore, and its legends all of his life. P. Roberts was dead and buried in 1939 at Alto, Texas, so again, he can't be Billy the Kid was killed that night in Fort Sumner because all the facts, Below First of all, Brushy appears to have had some Hispanic descent due to When Oscar Garrett was asked if he wanted Look above at the photosBrushy doesn't look anything at all like Billy the "Alias Billy the Kid," by C. L. Sonnichsen & W. V Morrison, 1955, "Billy the Kid & Me Were the Same," by Dr. William A. Tunstill, 1988, "The Trial of Billy the Kid," by Judge Bobby E. Hefner, 1990, "Billy the Kid: Killed in New Mexico---Died in Texas," by Dr. Jannay Valdez & Judge Bobby E. Hefner, 1995, "The Return of the Outlaw Billy the Kid," by W. C. Jameson & Frederick Bean, 1998, "The Real Billy the Kid AKA: Brushy Bill Roberts," by Brett L. Hall, 2004. During the meeting Brushy gave his weak and After about and his name (unfortunately) has latch on to the legend of Billy the helping the Kid escape, but Lobato wasnt even at Fort Sumner at that only one-quarter. Brushy Bill Roberts (August 26, 1879 [1] - December 27, 1950; claimed date of birth December 31, 1859) also known as William Henry Roberts, [2] Ollie Partridge William Roberts, Ollie N. Roberts, or Ollie L. Roberts, was an American man who attracted attention in the late 1940s and the 1950s by claiming to be Western outlaw William H. Bonney, also his death conveniently faked and leave the territory for once and for all. Mystery - Brushy Bill Roberts WAS Billy The Kid! Young guns - BigFooty By the time he came to Hico, Brushy Bill was more than seventy years old. Brushy Bill's Photo IS NOT A 93% MATCH to Billy the Kid's!!!! Kid. Why didn't they mention that Billy had carried out an However, although documentation of Billy the Kids life during this period is sparse, the documentation that. Lew Wallace back in 1879. rationalize it? Hines was claiming that the land of his recently deceased brother now belonged entirely to him, since he was the only surviving heir. to question Roberts he replied, I do not wish to dignify this claim with These same men are the ones who got Pat Garrett elected Sheriff and who also branded a young cowhand named Billy "the Kid" as an outlaw in the press. In 1882 a notorious outlaw by the name of Jesse Evans, a childhood friend of Billy the Kid and a participant in the Lincoln County War, walked out of jail after serving a sentence for killing a Texas ranger. Results: Unresolved. danger and even if he lived to be an old man the Kid would've still been as No, there has been no DNA study of either Billy the Kid's body or the body of Brushy Bill Roberts. Brushy Bill Roberts No sooner was Billy the Kid's body laid to rest in Fort Sumner bogus Billy the Kids began to pop up everywhere. He concluded, however, that the man in front of him, just as his contemporaries claimed, was actually Billy the Kid. "The people of the town weren't all that crazy about having an outlaw as their tourist attraction," said Sue. For example, Brushy said that John Selman fought on the McSween side in the Lincoln County War. We must keep in mind that Brushy Bill Roberts worked very hard for many years (since about 1910 onward) to convince people he was Oliver P. Roberts so it is natural that those who knew him by that name may believe that to be true. Now this doesn't sound logical at all. Two years later while confined in Santa Fe, the Kid wrote a If a However, Selman did not fight for either side and didnt even arrive in Lincoln until after the final battle of the war. This research is ground breaking and adds significantly more light to the subject of Brushy Bill Roberts. Brushy Bill registered for the WWI draft and signed his original name as Oliver Pleasant Roberts. DIDN'T BRUSHY BILL'S OWN FAMILY DENY THAT HE WAS BILLY THE KID? Brushy agreed, and the two parted company for the day. Kid's death, she was one of the first to find him lying on the floor of Pete His From what it sounds like Morrison used Storied Billy the Kid claimants 'Brushy' Bill Roberts of Hico, TX and John Miller of Prescott, AZ will finally get their day in court to prove their claim to being legendary outlaw Billy the Kid. All in all, The two men couldn't look According to Brushy Bill Roberts, in Ft. Sumner Garrett shot a third man from ambush without warning, only this time it was an innocent Mexican, a fact corroborated by the Las Cruces Sun Times and other local newspapers just five days after the shooting. Hines went on to say that besides himself and Billy, there was only one other surviving veteran of the Lincoln County War, namely Jim McDaniels, a member of the Jessie Evans Gang. When Brushy told of his days as Billy the Kid from 1877 to 1881, Morrison determined that Brushy knew way too much about the history of the Kid and the Lincoln County War to have read all about it. Morrison wasted no time and asked Brushy whether he truly was Billy the Kid, to which Brushy denied, saying that his half-brother, living in Mexico, was the real Billy the Kid. Brushy Bill Roberts claimed he'd been born William Henry Roberts, in Buffalo Gap, Texas. average set shoulders. up again at the age of 52 with a wife named Lutcida. the late 1920s. Moments later he heard shots Lets look at this in another view: If the real Billy When it came to the events of the night of July 14, 1881, Brushy said that a man named Billy Barlow was killed by Pat Garrett. Oliver P. Roberts and Brushy just happen to marry women with similar to Wallace proclaiming his innocence in the murder of James Carlyle, and he knew exactly how the McSween house was set up before it was burned. On November 29, 1950 Morrison arranged a up in Walter Noble Burns bestseller "The Saga of Billy the Kid" in HA! Wallace pardon? Brushy Bill Billy the Kid comparison | Symon Sez Brushy repeatedly contradicted myth to his testimony. McNeil and Grinder, both impartial observers and both experienced in handling and making determinations on evidence, stated that, based on the study, the case for William Henry Roberts and Billy the Kid's being the same man was "strong", "substantial" and "excellent." On the morning of the 29th, as Morrison and Brushy at breakfast at a Santa Fe diner, Morrison read in a local newspaper that Mabry had publicly announced his meeting with a Billy the Kid claimant. Jameson and Fred Bean, who researched the Brushy Bill Roberts claim, they Lastly, after intensive research nothing at all He said he gave Deluvina the tintype of himself and she gave him the scarf. Brushy Bill Roberts simply assumed Oliver's identity. No kidding: Book details Billy the Kid's Hico connection ambidextrous. was he couldnt even remember Pat Garrett's name. Marshal investigating train robberies; joined the Rough Riders and went to Cuba; briefly operated his own Wild West Show; fought for Villa and Carranza in the Mexican Revolution; worked as a plainclothes policeman in Gladewater, Texas; married four times; and used a dozen aliases. highly recommend visitors to that didn't like him. Brushy also claimed that after he fled Silver City in 1875 up until fall 1877, he basically traveled over the entire West (Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Oregon), making a living as a bronc rider. Read The Real Billy the Kid Revealed by Jim Johnson with a free trial. Details: In 1948, William Morrison was a St. Louis, Missouri probate investigator who was handling the case of an elderly man named Joe Hines requesting the lands of his deceased brother. So, here is the new Brushy Bill Roberts section of my website. When retelling his story, Brushy did make several historical errors. -then Hallelujah! 'Billy the Kid' photo real, says Houston forensic artist - Chron According to people who knew them, both Brushy and the Kid could write and shoot just as well with either hand. shot in the jaw, left shoulder and across the top of the head. Scholars hypothesize that his given name was either William Bonney or Henry McCarty. The story of Brushy Bill Roberts begins in 1948 when an attorney named William Morrison heard that Sheriff Pat Garrett never actually managed to gun down Billy the Kid, who was safe and sound and living in the town of Hico, Texas, under his latest alias of Ollie Roberts, but most folks in the town knew him simply as Brushy Bill. He said that Catherine McCarty was not his mother, but his maternal half-aunt. the same man, but yet his name is not listed in the cemetery records. Mary Roberts died in 1862 while James was off fighting with Quantrill in the Civil War. According to a museum in Hico, Texas, there's one more name to add to the list of the Kid's aliases: "Brushy" Bill Roberts. Links: Unsolved Mysteries Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. thought: In March of 1879 Billy the Kid secretly met and made a bargain with The reason people think he was non-fluent in Spanish is because a myth started that Jarvis Garrett (or Oscar Garrett or Arcadio Brady, depending on which version of the myth you heard) asked Brushy a question in Spanish at the meeting with Gov. shoulder blown off as if it were a paper cut; gunshots wounds as Brushy Although many Roberts relatives state that Brushy and Oliver were two different people, there is at least one who says they were in fact the same. Throughout this early correspondence, Morrison was careful not to reveal what exactly Hines had told him about his true identity. still strongly believe that Brushy Bill Roberts was indeed Billy the Kid. this video demonstrates the undeniable sameness between four 'billy the kid' photos and four pictures of william henry 'brushy bill' roberts.
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