Still cleaning in the garage, making room for the palette of hard bound books. Been finding a couple little gems in the piles of goo, like this clean, little drawing, of the Kid:
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Billy Buckaroo
This is from an old photograph that Jim Earle found (and used on one of his books about the Kid) and it does have a cocky resemblance to the Kid. Unfortunately, the photo has a Baltimore studio imprint so it's somewhat unlikely that it's the real Willie Bonney, but this is how we want him to look, plus the hat, which I've added, is a wide brimmed Chihuahua sugarloaf, which Garrett claimed he wore.
Meanwhile, over the years I have commissioned various artists to come up with lettering for T-shirts and book titles and I believe this is a Bob Steinhilber number:
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And just for grins here's the new CDV of the Kid, flopped to represent how he really looked.
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The new Billy the Kid CDV that Brian Lebel will auction off later this month.
And also, just for grins, here is the photograph I bought at the Longhorn Ranch Museum in New Mexico that set off the storm to find the truth about the lad:
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An Authentic Photo of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett signed! And totally fake.
"On the village street stands a tall figure in a red cloak flung over a sheepskin vest that is black with grime; a lavender turban with tassels and once colorful boots deck the extremities of this bandit, who hails me in a wolfish, leering way."
—Peter Mathiessen, The Snow Leopard