Historical facts-as elusive as quicksilver-rapidly devolve into myth and legend.
Substantiated information about this villain, or hero, of the Wild West remains rare. The cheerful, friendly boy, courteous to women, kind to children, helpful to his teacher, had become a desperate criminal, an outcast.Ĭontroversy and conjecture surround this supposed incident, as well as almost every other aspect of the birth, life, death, age, and even the name of a young outlaw sometimes called William Bonney. Bystanders gasped as blood-red smears covered his finally still hand, but the hulking blacksmith who had accosted his beloved mother uttered not a sound as he slipped slowly to the rough plank floor. The drunken bully’s insulting words cut him like a knife-like the deadly pocketknife now clutched in his slender, shaking fist.
It may, in fact, be part of the truth.– Gary Roberts, Historian Paperback US $17.95Ĭold fury overtook the desperate teen. What people believe to be true is often as important as reality.
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