Only existing photograph Billy the Kid sold for 2.3 M...

[chaos]

Oh, Sorry, I thought this was the "everybody uses Anadrol" thread.....beg my pardon....

Your sig line should read......"Fallsview, dutch, wes, chaos..........leave oakman alone"

Nice shirt BTW, you might want to keep that hung up, it may be a collectors item one day.

[Ursus]

I have some American relatives. Anyway they were over last year and they visited etc We got to talking and bantering and my mum said what has her 'claim to fame' etc anyway she said when she was a wee girl in USA she said she was standing in her house and she was very young and looked up and a man looked in at her then went on. She thought nothing of it as she was a child. Told her mum in conversation etc

Anyway then the police came round saying that a robber was in the area and had they seen him. It turns out that it was Clyde out of Bonnie and Clyde on teh run shortly before he died.

Pretty interesting I thought.

[Fallsview]

Your sig line should read......"Fallsview, dutch, wes, chaos..........leave oakman alone"

Nice shirt BTW, you might want to keep that hung up, it may be a collectors item one day.

LOL, Yeah, you didn't mention the Anadrol bottle...I looked at it and it had an expiration date of 1992..it feels like yesterday,lol.

I couldn't fit it in my line, plus, I gave "The Oak" a formal apology. You guys should say you're sorry.



STAY POSITIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wes]

Well, tell us, Wes. I'm sure you saw him in person back in the day.

LOW BLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[wes]

LOL, Yeah, you didn't mention the Anadrol bottle...I looked at it and it had an expiration date of 1992..it feels like yesterday,lol.

I couldn't fit it in my line, plus, I gave "The Oak" a formal apology. You guys should say you're sorry.



STAY POSITIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I`m sorry................... ...............














...........that the troll is even still allowed on the board! 

[King Shizzo]

4 were just the men in the Lincoln county war that had spotters.

If it was only truly 4, then Billy is definitely the most overhyped western legend in history.

Just like the dual at the o.k. corral, which is just like st. nick (santa claus), which is just like Jesus.  All of these were real life men who over the centuries thier stories have become the thing of legends.  I'm sure 1000 years from now people will look at guys like abe lincoln, and george washington in a totally different light.

[Flexb]

Just like the dual at the o.k. corral, which is just like st. nick (santa claus), which is just like Jesus.  All of these were real life men who over the centuries thier stories have become the thing of legends.  I'm sure 1000 years from now people will look at guys like abe lincoln, and george washington in a totally different light.

Yea, but that gun fight did happen in Tombstone almost as the movies showcase it. There are some discrepancies such as who shot who but overall it's pretty much the way it went down. The three earps and doc came to disarm the clanton and mcloughry brothers and ended up killing all of them except Ike Clanton who ran like a bitch. All of the earp crew and doc survived. Why it was such a big deal I will never know.

[King Shizzo]

Yea, but that gun fight did happen in Tombstone almost as the movies showcase it. There are some discrepancies such as who shot who but overall it's pretty much the way it went down. The three earps and doc came to disarm the clanton and mcloughry brothers and ended up killing all of them except Ike Clanton who ran like a bitch. All of the earp crew and doc survived. Why it was such a big deal I will never know.

probably cause it was a couple of gunshots and puffs of smoke. Sure people got killed, but you don't see people being made into legends these days for gunning people down.  They didn't have shit to do back then so everything became a story or legend.

[Flexb]

probably cause it was a couple of gunshots and puffs of smoke. Sure people got killed, but you don't see people being made into legends these days for gunning people down.  They didn't have shit to do back then so everything became a story or legend.

true, but at least the guys back then had skills and lived/died by the gun. The gun was their whole life back then and they NEVER took them off.
Most cops go an entire career without pulling the trigger or shooting anyone. If they do have a gunfight it's with some retard lowlife or with some guy that has a fukin uzzy that decided to light up a whole high school full of innocent people.
It's a whole different world now.

[wes]

dude got gypped. for that amount of cash he could have bought a pic of BDB.

LOL 

[tweeter]

Is that the only photograph of Billy or the only original? I thought this picture was him also.

[King Shizzo]

Is that the only photograph of Billy or the only original? I thought this picture was him also.

lol, if that is billy you will have one pissed off guy! It really looks like him too, just clean shaven.

[Mr. Magoo]

Is that the only photograph of Billy or the only original? I thought this picture was him also.

as far as I remember, the one posted is the only known photo of Billy the Kid. There have been several others that claim to be the same person but they were shown to be fake.

With that being said, I don't remember ever seeing the picture that you just posted.

[tweeter]

as far as I remember, the one posted is the only known photo of Billy the Kid. There have been several others that claim to be the same person but they were shown to be fake.

With that being said, I don't remember ever seeing the picture that you just posted.

I just did some searching online and found the following article regarding the picture I just posted:

It looks like famed Old West gunfighter Billy the Kid may not have been quite as camera-shy as once thought.

     A second ancient photograph appears to match the face in the one known picture of outlaw William H. Bonney, who was hunted down and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in 1881.  The established picture of Billy the Kid shows a slouched, slope-shouldered youth posing with a rifle, fitting his reputation as quick-drawing gunslinger and cattle rustler.  The second photo shows man in a suit sitting with his hand on a book.

A computer-identification expert and facial reconstruction anthropologist agreed that the image is probably genuine.  A facial-reconstruction artist said that the skull structure of the frontal bone is the same, as well as the jaw, the brow ridges, the projection of the ears, the shape of the lips, the cheek bones and the nose.

     The owner of the second tintype, Ray John de Aragon of Las Vegas, N.M., said it was passed down from his great-grandmother, who according to family history was a medical women who treated the fugitive and became his friend.  Ray de Aragon (who is now in his 50s) got the photo from his father as a 16th birthday gift.  He said the tintype is in a safe deposit box and he has no plans to sell it.

     Thomas Kyle of Los Alamos, a former government intelligence specialist, said his computer analysis of the two images shows combined facial and physical characteristics that would exist only once in 1.8 million people.  Western historian and Billy the Kid authority Robert Utley of Moose, Wyoming, said unless someone can prove otherwise, he will accept he portrait as genuine.

     The Lincoln Heritage Trust, which owns the original Billy the Kid photo, wants more testing before accepting or rejecting the picture.  The group that promise historical, cultural and environmental preservation in Lincoln County where Billy the Kid was a cattle rustler began searching for other pictures in 1988.  They claim they didn't start this to prove we had the only photo of Billy the Kid; but instead, to see if there are other photos of Billy the Kid.

     Kyle said he found close similarity in "circular-shaped ears with free swinging lobes," a long chin, a straight nose with unflared nostrils, the sloped shoulders, the long neck and the hands.  He also said he never expected to see Billy the Kid wearing a suit.  The man in the de Aragon photo is wearing a dark jacket and a white shirt.

[Dr Dutch]

Oh, Sorry, I thought this was the "everybody uses Anadrol" thread.....beg my pardon....

Still going strong, FV! 

[chunkramwell]

Billy the Kid saddens me due to the death and decline of western music.

[yates fan]

i have always understood that there were two photos of billy.

[G_Thang]

This guy was another not to be fuked with back then.

it's like the nba and nfl.  if black guys were gun slingers back in the old west and the money was at the baller level, alot of these guys wouldnt have had the reflexes to match them on the draw, insuring them an earlier graveyard date with the devil.  

[King Shizzo]

Why hasn't this topic been moved to the "wild west legends" forum?

[Dr Dutch]

Because "Mr Orange Country" started it, thank god..

[The Abdominal Snoman]

Bob Munden would have killed him without blinking an eye

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[The Abdominal Snoman]

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[Devon97]

Oh, Sorry, I thought this was the "everybody uses Anadrol" thread.....beg my pardon....

Only one man had the body girth to fill out this shirt Fallsview.........

Dr. PHIST!

[Fallsview]

Only one man had the body girth to fill out this shirt Fallsview.........

Dr. PHIST!

Nope...that's only an XXL.  Fist is working for the Parks Dept now and wears 4XL, looks like a skirt,lol.  Haven't run into him but will be going to a wedding that he might be at, I'm sure he'll remember me from GED, should be interesting....

[Fallsview]

More FIST....You're welcome.