Wild West

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

‘I am not afraid to die like a man, fighting, but I would not like to be killed like a dog, unarmed’
—Before being gunned down in the dark in Fort Sumner, New Mexico Territory, on July 14, 1881, Billy the Kid only had time to say, “Quién es?” (“Who is it?”). The answer was Lincoln County written

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