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Museum antiques and images from Lincoln, Fort
Sumner, and surrounding areas
James & Historian Leon Metz
Purported Billy the Kid gun (Lincoln Museum)
Said to be the knife Billy the Kid carried into Pete Maxwell's house the night he was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett
Purported to be Billy the Kid's knife
Lincoln Days Parade -actor who played Billy the Kid
Purported to be Billy the Kid's rifel (Billy the Kid Museum, Fort Sumner)
Purported to be Billy the Kid's chaps (Billy the Kid Museum, Fort Sumner)
Said to be Billy the Kid's spurs (Billy the Kid Museum, Fort Sumner)
A made-up Billy the Kid wanted poster
Purported to be Jesus Silva's pots
Said to be John Tunstall's travel box (Billy the Kid Museum, Fort Sumner)
Ellis Store (Lincoln County)
Another view of the Chisum enterance
Enterance to the Coe Ranch in Lincoln County
Location of Sheriff Wm. Brady's ranch
Blazer Mill (near Ruidoso)
Dowlin Mill (near Ruidoso)
Past and Present Mesilla Jail where Billy the Kid was imprisoned
St. James Hotel (Cimarron, NM)
Inside the St. James Hotel
Deathlist posted on the wall at the hotel
Famous guests at the St. James Hotel (such as Lew Wallace, Jesse James, Buffalo Bill Cody, Bat Masterson, Bob Ford, & Clay Allison)
James & Historian Leon Metz
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Famous Graves
The graves of Billy the Kid, Charlie Bowdre, and Tom O'Folliard
The deathmarker where Billy the Kid was killed at the location of Pete Maxwell's house in Old Fort Sumner
Billy the Kid's mother, Catherine Antrim in Silver City
John Jones, friend of Billy the Kid (Seven Rivers, NM)
Barbara Jones, mother of John Jones and friend of Billy the Kid (Seven Rivers, NM)
Tunstall & McSween's gravesites behind the Tunstall store in Lincoln
James W. Bell (White Oaks, NM), deputy killed by Billy the Kid during his famous jail break from the Lincoln Courthouse
The Garrett headstone (Las Cruces, NM)
Graveyard in Seven Rivers
Grave yard in Seven Rivers
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Town of Lincoln
Side view -door Deputy Bell exited when he was shot by Billy the Kid
Backroom and access to the staircase to the second floor -also displays museum pieces
...such as Catherine Antrim's old wooden gravemarker
Purported to be the Regulators and other Lincoln County War participants
Bullet made by Billy the Kid when he shot Deputy Bell
Staircase to the second level
Top of staircase -looking towards the balcony end of building
Up stairs window looking out back -below is Deputy Bell's deathmarker
Billy the Kid shot Deputy Olinger from this window
Same window looking down at Olinger's deathmarker -probably the same view Billy the Kid had when he aimed and fired
Outside view of same window
The location of Alex McSween's home that was burnt to the ground during the Lincoln County War
Back view of Tunstall's store
Side view of Tunstall's store