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Billy`s birth name was Henry McCarty
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Cathrrine McCarty gets married to William Antrim in Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Catherine McCarty dies of tuberculosis
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Billy gets arrested for stealing cloths in Silver city.
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Billy kills Windy Cahill. In fall of the same year, William Bonney arrives in Lincoln County, New Mexico
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William Bonney hired as cowboy by John H. Tunstall and Alexander McSween
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Tunstall killed by men working for Lawrence G. Murphy and J.J. Dolan. That same month, Pro-Tunstall workers form a small army called "The Regulators"
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The Regulators kill three Murphy-Dolan men
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The Regulators kill Sheriff William Brady and one of his deputies in Lincoln
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The Regulators kill Andrew "Buckshot" Roberts, a Murphy-Dolan man, at Blazer`s Mill, New Mexico
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Billy the Kid and others are indicted for the murder of William Brady
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The Regulators and Murphy-Dolan forces battle in Lincoln. During the battle, McSween was killed. The battle went from July 15 to July 19
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President Ruthford B. Hayes appoints General Lew Wallace governor of New Mexico Territory
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Billy makes a living stealing horses and gambling
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Pat Garrett is elected sheriff
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Billy and several of his friends battle a posse under Deputy James Carlyle. In the battle, Carlyle is killed
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Governor Wallace offers reward for capture of Billy
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Tom O`Folliard, ally of Billy, is killed by Pat Garrett`s posse
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Garrett captures Billy at Stinking Springs, New Mexico
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In a court in Mesilla, New Mexico, convicts Billy of murder. He is sentenced to hang
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Billy escapes from Lincoln County Courthouse
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Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Pat Garrett in Maxwell house at Fort Sumner, New Mexico