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WHO’S KIDDING WHO?

was grateful the cover of your Autumn 2022 labeled part of your magazine’s contents as “Tales of Billy the Kid.” The issue’s assortment of articles about and around the character of Billy the Kid contained a delicious stewpot of facts, assertions, suppositions and conjectures that stimulated my imagination but confused my cognitive digestive tract about just what was clearly known and not known about one William H. McCarty, aka William H. Bonney, a 19th-century

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