From his first robberies to his days as a frontier gunslinger to his sudden death, Billy the Kid remains perhaps the definitive legend of the Wild West. He was to outlaws what Wyatt Earp was to lawmen ...

When Govenor Bill Richardson announced his intention to research a potential pardon for Billy the Kid, 129 years after his ...

Four iconic actors helped make this star-studded Western unforgettable, even though the Hollywood icon Al Pacino rejected the movie.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mythic air hangs over Billy the Kid's headstone in the windswept, isolated village of Fort Sumner. The outlaw's tombstone has ...

FORT SUMNER, N.M. — One of the most revered figures of the U.S. West, Billy the Kid, now has a new permanent stone monument installed at his gravesite in New Mexico. The monument replaced a weathered ...

Born in 1859, William Henry McCarty never knew his father. As a teenager, he followed his mother in a convoy of pioneers on their way west. Once in New Mexico, his mother died and the young man was ...

Two newly discovered photographs that are said to depict the infamous Western gunslinger Billy the Kid as a child are up for auction. Only one authenticated and universally accepted photograph of ...

A mythic air hangs over Billy the Kid’s headstone in the windswept, isolated village of Fort Sumner. The outlaw’s tombstone has been stolen on at least three occasions over the years, disappearing ...