I'm the outlaw that looks like, well...a kid. That's why they called me Billy the Kid. "Nobody knows an exact date of when I was born but it was around 1861. My childhood was horrific. My ma fell in utter love with a man and he was like a pa. Unfortunately my ma got tuberculosis and died," (Healy 11). "Since I was parentless, my only choice was to live a life of crime. The first time I ever got caught from the law was in 1872, because I had taken a pound of butter from a rancher. Luckily I was let off. Afterwards, I started living with a foster family. My step pa left to Arizona for work so I went to find him and did. I told him about my crimes and he disowned me. Soon after I met up with my partner in crime,…show more content… We ended up in a camp called Grant. There was a blacksmith there named Windy. He would beat me in the camp's cantina as others watched. One day in 1877 he pinned and beat me so I pulled out my .45 and shot him. I sprinted out of there and fled to New Mexico. A man named Tunstall had a big working company there. He captured, me since I supported a company that was against him, and told me I could work for him or be sent to the authorities. I decided to work for him and grew a strong relationship with him and his men. Everything was mighty swell until Tunstall was killed by outlaws while we were riding on a canyon in 1878. When I noticed them it had been too late so me and the others fled. We soon found out the outlaws were hired by Dolan, a rival of Tunstall's. We tried getting help from the sheriff, but instead the sheriff arrested two of us! We were furious," (Brothers AboutBillyThekid). "We made a posse called the regulators, ready to…show more content… Then Dolan was thirsty for blood. He trapped us all at Alex McSween's house, a man who supported us. Dolan had an army of soldiers from Fort Stanton and a colonel named Dudley. The siege lasted five days until they lit the house on fire. Most started panicking. I came up with a plan and led the men; half the group went through the back and tried to lose the men at the dark of the river while the rest made a run for Tunstall's store. Many regulators including Alex died that night. Me and a few others slipped away. In the same year, we left for Fort Sumner with three Mexicans. At one point we decided to stop at a mill and visit a spring nearby. The Mexicans decided to ride ahead. We joined up again and natives ambushed us. We escaped but some natives were killed and I got blamed. We made it to Sumner where most of us found peace there, but not me. Me and the rest went to Tascosa, Texas and the rest of us broke. Afterwards, I had to go to a peace treaty for the Dolan and Tunstall people. The treaty was made but there were some that were unfaithful and killed others from the opposite side. Of course I got blamed for it. In 1879, I decided I was done with running. I made arrangements with the Mayor of Lincoln to do a fake arrest and testify against Dolan, Colonel Dudley, and the men who killed people from the other side. I got arrested and sent to court. I
