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    FAMOUS GUNSLINGERS

    Dec 30, 2021 3 minutes

    Billy the Kid

    1859-1881

    y the time he was gunned down at the age of 21, Billy the Kid is said to have killed as many as 27 men. Orphaned at the age of 14, it wasn’t long before the young man, then still known as Henry McCarty, turned to a life of crime. In 1877 in a Arizona saloon, he killed his first man, before becoming involved in a violent frontier war, and sought to avenge the death of his employer, shooting Sheriff William J Brady dead. He spent the next three years on the run, and

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