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Billy the Kid photo auctioned for $2.3 million

Private collector William Koch buys the only known tintype of the Old West outlaw. It is believed to have been made in New Mexico around 1880. What is believed to be the only surviving authenticated portrait of Billy the Kid went up for auction in Denver on Saturday and sold for $2.3 million.

 

Tourists Injured During Old West Shootout Show

An Old West shootout staged as part of a charity fundraiser may have come a little too close to the real thing when three tourists were injured.

 

NM governor: No pardon for outlaw Billy the Kid

NM governor: No pardon for outlaw Billy the Kid

The rehabilitation of Billy the Kid lies dead in the dust. In one of his last official acts - or non-acts - before leaving office, New Mexico's governor refused to pardon the Old West outlaw Friday for one of the many murders he committed before he was gunned down in 1881.

 

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