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Abstract expression: Albuquerque artist, three others to hold pop-up Dan Badgley grew up knowing about Exhibit explores the impact of nuclear testing, uranium mining When De Haven Solimon Chaffins was Thomas Benton Catron was once the single-largest landowner in He starred at village fandangos or bailes, where he danced to the polkas, waltzes and schottisches performed by the mariachis playing violins and the traditional convex-back guitars.
He knew that many of the Hispanics thought of him as a folk hero. Only the second photo ever authenticated of Billy the Kid, this photo is a tintype that was owned at one point by the estate of Pat Garrett. You can read more about that here. While he moved restlessly around Fort Sumner during that summer of , Billy must have mused over the chronicle of events that brought him to a point where he had to think about leaving the country and heading south.
On a cold and snowy day six months earlier, Billy and his gang had been run to ground by Pat Garrett and a posse at a small rock cabin at Stinking Springs, a few miles east of Fort Sumner. Billy cride [ sic ] out is that you Pat out there.
Billy says that is what I thought of you, you old long legged son of a bitch Billy and his gang soon starved out. They surrendered. Under guard by Garrett and his men, Billy and the other prisoners rode by wagon to Las Vegas, New Mexico, where they were met by a boisterous mob. Billy smiled and waved to the crowd, enjoying the attention. On December 27, still under guard by Garrett and his men, Billy and the other prisoners boarded a train.
It took them to Santa Fe, where they spent three months in jail. While he wrote letters from his cell to the governor of New Mexico, pleading for a pardon, Billy and his fellow gang members did their best to dig a tunnel to freedom.
After officials discovered the escape attempt, Billy found himself in solitary, shackled to the floor of a cell as dark as a cave. Near the end of March, Billy and one other gang member, guarded by three deputy U. Marshals, including an old enemy, Bob Olinger, boarded a train southward for Mesilla, where they would face trial.
Billy endured tormenting by Olinger throughout the trip. On April 13, Billy heard his sentence: He would be sent to Lincoln, where he would be hanged. On April 16, Billy began the trip, by wagon, to Lincoln, under a seven-man guard, including, again, the hateful Bob Olinger. Once in Lincoln, Billy came once more under the custody of Pat Garrett, who had him shackled to the floor of his courthouse cell and placed under the guard of Olinger and Deputy James W.
Late in the afternoon 12 days later, Billy watched as Olinger left the jail with five other prisoners, heading to the hotel across the street for dinner. Billy asked Bell to take him outside to the privy. On the way back into the courthouse and his cell, Billy, although shackled with hand and leg cuffs, bludgeoned Bell with the chains. Billy shot the deputy, leaving him to stagger outside and collapse, dying almost immediately in the arms of a passerby named Godfrey Gauss.
Though impeded by his shackles, Billy quickly made his way upstairs. Speck threatened the women with both a gun and a knife, tying each of them up while robbing their townhouse. Over the next several hours, Relations between the Soviet Union and China reach the breaking point as the two governments engage in an angry ideological debate about the future of communism.
The United States, for its part, was delighted to see a wedge being driven between the two communist superpowers. On July 14, , one of the most egregious breaches of the U. Constitution in history becomes federal law when Congress passes the Sedition Act, endangering liberty in the fragile new nation.
While the United States engaged in naval hostilities with Revolutionary France, known The young Roosevelt was engaged to Flora Payne Whitney, Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Everyone knew who was exacting hotlead justice but that was okay since the killers were on one side or the other of the range dispute. Then Billy and his pals made a big mistake. This was serious trouble. The lawmen were crooked but they were government appointed agents.
The Kid was in serious trouble. Pat Garrett was elected sheriff of Lincoln County in and right away, he took off after Billy. The officer arrested the outlaw and Billy was tried for the murder of Sheriff Brady. He was convicted and the judge sentenced him to death. His date with destiny would come at another time, July 14, As with all legends things became a bit hazy.
Buried in a common grave with two friends, no one knows for sure which body is which, or if Billy is there at all. The only known photograph of the Kid showed him left handed until it was discovered that the photo was reversed.
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