Tag: Tom O'Folliard

• On This Day in 1881, Billy the Kid cheats the hangman.

  

  John Wesley Hardin. Jesse James. Cole Younger. “Curly” Bill Brocius. Gunslingers, killers, thieves and icons of the Wild West. Of all the Western outlaws none has quite the notoriety of “Billy the Kid.” Questionably accused of killing 21 men (one for each year of his short and violent life), Billy is as much a Wild…

  CrimeScribe

  April 28, 2021

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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