Whatever Happened to Billy the Kid

Helen Airy

Sunstone Press, 1993 - Biography & Autobiography - 175 pages

It’s possible that Billy the Kid escaped the gunfire from Pat Garrett’s pistol. And, under the name of John Miller, he could have lived the rest of his life as a cattle rancher and horse breeder in the Zuni mountains of Western New Mexico, and as a farm worker in Buckeye, Arizona. His adopted son, Max Miller, said so. So do most of the Indians and the Mormon pioneers who knew John Miller. Could this be? Our book presents some convincing evidence. You decide.

Contents

• Flight From Fort Sumner: 9
• A Bloody Past: 19
• Building A New Life: 33
• Billys Friend Herman Tecklenburg: 42
• Apollas Boaz Lambson: 46
• The Mormons Return: 54
• Max Miller and Friend Feliz Bustamante: 69
• Andrew and Effa Vander Wagen: 76
• The Outlaws: 82
• John Miller and Frank Burrard Creasy: 90
• Boomtime for Cattlemen: 100
• The Native Americans: 109
• Arrival of the Crockett Families: 125
• Last Days at The Miller Ranch: 132
• Arizona Bound: 138
• Afterword: 159
• Acknowledgements: 170

About the author

Helen Airy graduated from Yreka High School, Siskiyon County, California, and the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in English literature. She was a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner for five years until the outbreak of World War II when she joined the American Red Cross in December, 1942, and was sent to England. She served as an aero club director on a B-26 bomber base at Rougham, in East Anglia, and later as a London-based reporter writing about the American Red Cross. She is the author of Doughnut Dollies, American Red Cross Girls During World War II, also published by Sunstone Press.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Whatever Happened to Billy the Kid
• Author: Helen Airy
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Sunstone Press, 1993
• ISBN: 0865341850, 9780865341852
• Length: 175 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Criminals & Outlaws; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)