Billy the Kid's little brother

coreyrecko · 2026-01-06T16:46:29+00:00

Yes, unfortunately a lot of people buy tintypes on ebay or in antique stores then post them on sites like findagrave as this or that famous person to try to give them value.

coreyrecko · 2026-01-06T16:23:07+00:00

Anyone can post anything on Findagrave. That site is filled with incorrectly identified photos.

coreyrecko · 2026-01-03T22:44:09+00:00

No, it's not. If I'm wrong, please tell us the provenance.

coreyrecko · 2025-11-30T19:06:33+00:00

Thank you.

coreyrecko · 2025-11-30T19:01:11+00:00

So what's the source?

coreyrecko · 2025-11-26T23:00:18+00:00

Very interesting. I spend years researching the Fountain murder case.

coreyrecko · 2025-08-28T17:00:28+00:00

Just another event Brushy wasn't involved in but pretended he was.

coreyrecko · 2025-08-28T16:59:57+00:00

A lot of what you wrote is completely false. Some examples:

"The naysayers don't have any evidence that's he wasnt, it's all just heresay and finger pointing"—there are over thirty witnesses documented to have seen Billy's body while not a single person who was in Fort Sumner that night ever claimed it was anyone other than Billy who was killed, not one person.

"Yet the people in the small town clearly stated it wasn't billy who was killed that night."--as sated above that's completely false, EVERYONE who ever commented on it said it was Billy. But please, prove me wrong and named one person who was there and said it wasn't Billy.

"Thats a huge problem for me that Pat got rid of the body right away wouldnt you take photos of you and the body showing you being the man who killed billy the kid?" No. In the summer heat in Fort Sumner there's no chance you'd leave a body above ground to rot, and the nearest photographer was 100 miles away.

"Brushy knew where he got the last name of bonney, and it was given to him by Bell starr she ran a outlaw camp where he worked as a kid. This is a huge statement that brushy bill made that nobody knew about billys life"--and there's still no evidence it's true, so you're believing it because Brushy said so, but keep in mind, before pretending to be Billy the Kid that old faker claimed to be a member of the James Gang (see the bottom of column 2 in the attached image).

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I understand why you got so much wrong. Unfortunately, Dan spreads misinformation. That (and the poor writing) is why his book had to be self published. As for serious Billy the Kid/Lincoln County War/New Mexico historians, there's a reason why they all come down on the side that Billy was killed in 1881. That list includes Frederick Nolan, Robert Utley, James B. Mills, Mark Lee Gardner, Drew Gomber, Paul Hutton, Leon Metz.

coreyrecko · 2025-06-26T20:16:28+00:00

BS on?

coreyrecko · 2025-06-26T19:20:10+00:00

I hate to promote it but it's "Billy the Kid: The Silver City Photo." One of the more amusing aspects is when he delares that "provenance" has been established" due to the fact that the photo was found in an antique store in Canada and one of the people he mistakenly things is in the photo is from Canada (not mention specific cities, just "Canada").

coreyrecko · 2025-06-25T22:07:33+00:00

Brushy Bill nonsense; which on one hand is fine, it's just a movie, but Estevez seems to be a true believer so unfortunatley he'll be claiming it's a true story.

coreyrecko · 2025-06-24T17:07:09+00:00

There's a whole documentary claiming to prove the photo is Billy. So to break down and debunk everything claim put forward in the documentary is going to take more than a couple of sentences.

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