Who was this gunslinger?

Born November 23, 1859 in New York City, William Henry McCarty Jr., aka William H. Bonney, Henry Antrim and Billy the Kid, is a legendary outlaw of the American Old West whose life has become sensationalized in movies, songs, and books.

Henry McCarty’s first run-in with the law came in 1875, when he assisted a local street tough known as “Sombrero Jack” in stealing clothing from a Chinese laundry. The crime only carried a minor sentence, but rather than face punishment, the wiry youth escaped the jailhouse by shimmying up a chimney. McCarty then fled town and embarked on a career as a roving ranch hand, gambler and gang member. He became handy with a Winchester rifle and a Colt revolver, and in August 1877 he killed his first man during a dispute in an Arizona saloon. That same year, he adopted the alias “William H. Bonney” and became known as “Billy the Kid” or simply “The Kid.”

Billy the Kid first earned his reputation as a gunslinger in 1878, when he participated in a bloody frontier war in Lincoln County, New Mexico between British-born rancher John Tunstall and a pair of Irish tycoons named James Dolan and Lawrence Murphy.

The Kid and his "Regulators" ended up killing Sheriff Brady, who was influenced by Dolan & Murphy, and became a wanted man.

On July 14, 1881, Henry McCarty—better known by the alias Billy the Kid—was hunted down and shot dead by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.