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Billy the Kid William H. Bonney(born William Henry McCarty, Jr.) Est. November 23, 1859—C. July 14, 1881, better known as Billy the Kid but also known as Henry Antrim, was a 19th-century American gunman who participated in the Lincoln county war and became a frontier outlaw on the west. According to legend he killed 21 men, but is generally accepted to have killed between four and nine.
In this movie Young Guns based loosely on actual events and people. William H. Bonney (aka Billy the Kid). Sought for a petty crime in Lincoln County, Billy is taken in by John Tunstall, a British ranch owner seeking to make it in the cattle business. Tunstall employs a group of "regulators," comprised of wayward youths he's gathered over the years, to watch

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