S23E7 - The REAL Story of Billy the Kid | Boring History For Sleep

Somewhere underneath more than a century of dime novels, movies, exaggerated stories, and Old West mythology is a real young man. His name was Henry McCarty, although history remembers him much better as Billy the Kid. Tonight, we’re going looking for the person underneath the legend.

Our trail takes us through nineteenth-century New Mexico, dusty frontier towns, ranches, courtrooms, newspapers, and the complicated Lincoln County conflict. We’ll piece together Billy’s early years, the different names he lived under, the people who actually knew him, his encounters with the law, and how someone so young became...