Lied to as Children

Lied to as Children

Noel Laflin

11-23-18

Billy The Kid was born on November 23,1859. He would die at the hand of sheriff Pat Garrett in July of 1881.

Now, I mention this only because an old cousin-by-marriage claimed to have met The Kid as a child. In fact, he even claimed to have helped hide him in their New Mexico barn, shortly before he was killed.

I always believed his story while growing up. That is until we recently found out that this beloved old cousin was actually born in 1885, four years after the death of William H. Bonney - aka Billy The Kid.

Huh, our old cowboy cousin lied to us kids.

I’d call him out on this if he were still with us, but he’s been dead for forty-five years already.

As some stories just should have been true, I’m going to pretend that our old cousin merely lied about his age instead.