Young pointed croquet raising finger in the picture or wanted to place on record who was boss? To his left, leaning on the bar, was the Billy the Kid himself who looked at the camera, as have logged specialists who have analyzed every detail of this hitherto unpublished.
Randy and Linda Pebble bought it in 2010 in a store second-hand Fresno (California). They paid two dollars for a picture whose value has now reached $ 5 million. It is Billy the Kid playing croquet in the late summer of 1878 in New Mexico with family, friends and members of his band, the regulators, with whom he participated in the bloody war of Lincoln County.
So far the only known photograph of the legendary gunman was a tintype-a rudimentary photographic technique that used metal-plates captured in Fort Sumner (New Mexico) in 1880. The plaque, which was sold in 2011 for 2.3 million dollars (1.6 million euros), the famous outlaw looks at the camera standing, leaning on his Winchester repeating.
In this second image, 10 x 13 cm, Billy the Kid also is standing, but leaning on the croquet mallet with a black hat resembling Abraham Lincoln wearing.
The Kagin’s firm has taken a year to authenticate the image. “When I saw the picture first, I was very skeptical. An original photo of Billy the Kid is the grail of memory objects in the conquest of the West, “he confessed numismatic Kagin’s chief, David McCarthy. Researchers have concluded, however, that the picture is authentic and have come to determine the exact location of Chaves County in which it was made. National Geographic Channel will issue on October 18, a documentary narrated by Kevin Costner, with the investigations carried out.
The company owner, Donald Kagin’s, told the BBC that the picture will not be auctioned but will be sold directly to interested buyers. “The historical significance of a photograph of Billy the Kid with known gang members and prominent citizens of Lincoln County is incalculable. Is perhaps the most compelling of the American West that have seen piece, “said Kagin.
Henry McCarty, as this name was actually outlawed he used throughout his life other names like Henry Antrim and William H. Bonney, was captured two years later it was captured this board and hanged. He managed to escape in April 1881 after killing two guards, but three months after his escape, the sheriff Pat Garrett and his aides surrounded him outside Fort Sumner. “Who is? Who is he? ‘Were his last words, spoken in Spanish, to be surprised. Billy the Kid fell under the bullets of Garrett the July 14, 1881 and was buried in Fort Sumner. He was only 21 years old.
Thus ended the brilliant career of this outlaw it said killed 21 people, one for each year of his life, although some research cut the number to seven murders, including the Sheriff Brady Lincoln, and two deaths self-defense.
Doubts about his true death
“The boy fell dead. He said nothing more, “Pat Garrett wrote in his memoir in 1882 with which he tried to dispel rumors and then there were the death of the outlaw. Some pointed to the figure silhouetted in the dark on the door to the sheriff who shot twice in the back was another Billy, Billy Barlow.
Doubts about the death of Billy the Kid were increased in 1948 when William Henry Roberts, an old man of 90 years but younger looking, appeared in New Mexico claiming to be the real Billy the Kid and claiming the pardon had agreed with the Governor Lew Wallace in 1879 in exchange for testifying for a murder he had witnessed. The controversy was served. Roberts, who went through tests and interviews were inconclusive, died in Texas in 1950 before his claim was reviewed.
In May 2003, an investigation was opened in New Mexico to clarify by DNA analysis if the famous bandit died of old and not nearly seventy years earlier. But the grave of Billy the Kid in Fort Sumner was lost in the floods in the cemetery. Without his remains he appeared Odyssey complex. A judge refused to exhume the body of the mother of the outlaw and local politicians were reluctant to unearth Roberts.
In 2010 the governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson dismissed posthumously pardoning Billy the Kid. For the second time, the outlaw stood at the door of forgiveness. The state’s investigation raised new questions about how, when and where he died this outlaw.
Last July, the historian Robert Stahl, a professor at Arizona State University retired, announced he would file a complaint with the New Mexico Supreme Court demanding an end to speculation about the death of Billy the Kid and an official certificate his death, according to The Washington Post picked. “Enough is enough,” Stahl wrote in February in a request to a lower court.
Stahl stated in its request the report of a coroner’s jury testimony, newspaper articles of the time, and a mountain of evidence that would support the official version that Pat Garrett killed Billy the Kid. But without the remains buried in 1881, and a photograph of his body, an official certificate ¿dispel doubts?
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