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In legend, Billy the Kid has been described as a vicious and
ruthless killer, an outlaw who died at the age of twenty-one,
not before raising havoc in the New Mexico Territory. It was
said he took the lives of twenty-one men, one for each year of
his life, the first one when he was just twelve years old. He
was a rebel without a cause who killed without reason. These and many more accusations
of callous acts are examples of the myth of Billy the Kid. In real form,
the Kid was not the cold-blooded killer he has been portrayed as, but a
young man who lived in a violent dog-eat-dog world, where knowing how to
use a gun was the difference between life and death. As you read the
biography keep in mind that Billy the Kid lived in a very different,
lawless, and corrupted time, so don't judge him by today’s morals and
laws. |
