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    The Other Life of Billy the Kid
    The Other Life of Billy the Kid
    The Other Life of Billy the Kid
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    The Other Life of Billy the Kid

    By Clyde V. Antrim

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    The Other Life of Billy The Kid is a historical fiction novel based on the life of Henry William McCarty or the notorious Wild West outlaw, Billy The Kid. This wonderful work of fiction lets readers see what Henry was like growing up before he became the infamous bandit.

    This cowboy fiction and coming of age novel is for young and the old and huge fans of wild west books! Under the scorching sun of Northern American desert, readers get to witness the childhood adventures of Henry and life in the Old West!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateApr 29, 2004
    ISBN9781414094267
    The Other Life of Billy the Kid
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    Clyde V. Antrim

    The author’s name is Clyde V. Antrim. He is the author of The Antrim Genealogy News and The Antrim Families of America.

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      The Other Life of Billy the Kid - Clyde V. Antrim

      © 2004, 2005, 2015 Clyde V. Antrim. All Rights Reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 01/27/2015

      ISBN: 978-1-4184-2718-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4140-9426-7 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2004105013

      CONTENTS

      Part I The Other Life of Billy the Kid

      Part II The Other Life of Billy the Kid

      About The Author

      Part I

      The Other Life of Billy the Kid

      Henry William McCarty was born in 1860 to Patrick and Catherine McCarty in the state of New York. The McCartys had a four-year-old boy named Joseph when Henry was born. The McCartys were having a hard time in 1860, and with two sons to raise, Patrick told his wife that they were going west to find work and a place to live. The McCartys made it to Indiana, where Patrick got sick and died. Catherine, with two young sons to raise, found a place to work and to live in Wabash, Indiana.

      Catherine became friends with a Mrs. Ida Antrim. Ida and her husband had a small farm outside of Wabash. Catherine and her sons lived in Wabash, Indiana, till 1871 and then she moved to Kansas with Ida and Levi Antrim. The Antrims thought of Catherine as their daughter and the boys as their grandsons.

      The Antrims had two sons, both whom had been in the war. After the war the boys were given land in Kansas. The Antrim boys asked their parents to go with them and live in Kansas.

      William and James had homesteaded 160 acres of Osage Trust land in Butler County, Kansas. Then in 1872, William sold his half of the land to his brother James and asked Catherine if she and the boys would go with him to New Mexico. William had had all the farm life that he could take, and Catherine said yes. She knew the boys needed a father and this could mean a new life for her.

      William and Catherine were married in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on March 1, 1873, and living in Silver City. The two boys were going to school, and William had a job at the Knights Butcher Shop. Catherine was happy, but she had been suffering from lung trouble since she left Kansas. Catherine had been confined to bed for four months. She died September 16, 1874, at the age of thirty-four. The boys took their mother’s death very hard; Henry had been very close to his mother and he had a harder time with her death than Joseph.

      William Antrim did his best for his stepsons. After his wife died William found work and a place for the boys to stay after school. Henry worked at the Truesdell’s Boarding House and Joseph worked at one of the ore mines.

      Mr. and Mrs. Truesdell liked Henry very much and said he was a very good worker and that the guests at the boarding house liked him. Mr. Trusdell had asked the boy what his name was. He answered, My name is Henry William Antrim, but you can call me Billy.

      Silver City was a rough town, as mining communities were likely to be, and Billy fell in with some bad company, a local no-good known as Sombrero Jack. Jack asked Billy to hold his horse while he went in to a Chinese laundry to get some clothing cleaned. But Sombrero Jack had other things on his mind. Sombrero Jack had just robbed the laundry, and as he was leaving he gave Billy a silver dollar and then got on his horse and road out of town.

      Billy was standing in the street looking at the silver dollar and scratching his head, when the two Chinamen came running out of the laundry hollering for help, they grabbed Billy and held him till Sheriff Henry Whithall came along. The sheriff told Billy that he was in a heap of trouble and that he was going to jail. The sheriff thought it would teach Billy a lesson if he spent the night in jail.

      But Billy did not know this. For all Billy knew he was in jail and he might never get out. When the sheriff locked the door and left, it did not take Billy long to find a way out.

      Looking around the one-room jail, Billy could see the bars on the windows and the door looked to be a foot thick. He had to find some other way to get out. A fireplace was at the end of the room. Billy ran to the fireplace and bent down and looked up the chimney. The chimney was the way out. He could climb up the inside of the chimney by stepping on the rocks that the chimney was made from. After Billy got to the top of the chimney he had to drop down onto the roof of the jail, and in doing so he fell off the roof.

      Jumping up, Billy ran all the way to the back door of the boarding house before he realized how he must have looked. He was black with soot from head to toe. When Mrs. Truesdell saw him she asked him what in the world happen to him. Billy told her what had happened to him. She told Billy to clean up and that she had some clean clothes he could wear. Her son was bigger than Billy, but they were clean.

      Mrs. Truesdell also gave Billy some money and then she got him aboard a wagon headed for

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