Billy the Kid

In Western frontier history, you might call it 'the Great Escape.' After all, Davy Crockett didn't escape the Alamo, George Custer didn't escape the Little Bighorn, and Nez Perce Chief Joseph didn't escape the U.S. Army. But Billy the Kid did escape the Lincoln County Courthouse! New Mexico Territory's Lincoln County War boosted the Kid into the national spotlight in the late 1870s, but it wasn't until his dramatic escape from the courthouse in April 1881 that he secured his place near the top of the all-time badmen heap. Getting shot down by Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner less than three months later certainly cemented Billy's legend -- which might have suffered had he not died so young -- but the Kid didn't exactly go out in a blaze of glory. And Garrett never would have gotten his chance at the gutsy, if not heroic, gunman had it not been for Billy's great -- well, not so great for two Lincoln County lawmen -- escape. Actually, Garrett had a role -- albeit in absentia -- in Billy's April 28, 1881, breakout. Running on a law-and-order platform, Garrett had been elected sheriff of

Lincoln County in November 1880 and had captured Billy the Kid at Stinking Springs the next month. Then, in Mesilla on April 13, 1881, Billy had been convicted of the murder of Sheriff William Brady, one of the casualties of the Lincoln County War, and sentenced to hang. The execution was to be carried out in Lincoln on Friday, May 13, and seven guards had transported the prisoner there in the middle of April. So on April 28, the Kid was very much Garrett's responsibility. And the sheriff did not take his responsibility lightly. Garrett did not keep Billy in Lincoln's old cellar jail, which he knew would never hold a cunning prisoner whose very life depended on getting out. Instead, Garrett kept the Kid shackled hand and foot and guarded around the clock in the room behind his own office at the county courthouse, which had been the old Murphy-Dolan store (commonly referred to as 'the House') during the Lincoln County War. Billy the Kid was studied, but when his mother died he changed and became a criminal it developed he started wearing the wrong and stole from people and shops. It evolved into a mass crime and murder, Buddy pure he went with came in and sit in jail for various crimes, he would help them out of jail by knocking at the prison gate and say that he was sheriff and had no prisoners, so correctional officer opened the gate and Billy the Kid nakkede constable. When he had whacked correctional officer, he took his keys, freed his friends and continued ofcause with crime. Billy had been a high-crime guy who was wanted there was a bounty of $ 5000 it was a lot of money back then.Billy the Kid moved to another city and had to learn to shoot with a revolver and catch a cow. Billy was a great guy who many would catch to get bounty of $ 5000. Billy the Kid died in