Brushy Bill stated that Jesse James was in Lincoln county and for years and years historians claimed bullshit but it was until fairly recently that they have found documents proving Jesse James was in Lincoln County and had been operating a counterfeit money system there with Billy. 23, 1859 (the date that Ash Upson gave for the Kid's birth) is now highly
man, his memory was a little fuzzy.
Believing that Brushy could be the real deal, Morrison promised him he would do all he could to help obtain a pardon, provided Brushy would allow him to investigate further into his history to find more proof that he was authentic.
rifle and Alex McSweens arrest warrant. Both Acton and Bovik concluded that their result proved "beyond the shadow of a doubt" that Billy the Kid and Brushy Bill were the same person. The oath-swearing actually was Dick Brewer, not the Kid. His status as folk hero steadily grew with the help of countless books, films, and songs, which romanticize the life and death of the notorious outlaw. wall to reclaim his revolver. However, the men asking the questions seemed to treat the affair as something as a joke, and asked primarily only meaningless questions (i.e. According to Brushy, this was the name of a cousin of his that was killed and he had merely taken his name. Morrison
According to people who knew them, both Brushy and the Kid could write and shoot just as well with either hand. Brushy was
P. Roberts was dead and buried in 1939 at Alto, Texas, so again, he can't be
Finally, in 1987, Hico erected a Brushy Bill monument and opened the Billy the Kid Museum -- and Billy turned out to be good for Hico. face, a narrow chin, small mouth, round ears and very narrow slopped shoulders. We must keep in mind that Brushy Bill Roberts worked very hard for many years (since about 1910 onward) to convince people he was Oliver P. Roberts so it is natural that those who knew him by that name may believe that to be true. Also how would Garrett know that
Brushy then went on to say that he knew he didnt have many years left in him and wanted to die with the full pardon he had been promised by Gov. Now with modern photographic comparison software and more access to primary source documents than ever before, many people are beginning to believe that Brushy Bill Roberts truly was the Billy the Kid of legend. before Governor Thomas Mabry to request a pardon for Brushy Bill Roberts
uncle was born in 1879 in east Texas, and Billy the Kid was supposed to have
This photo of Brushy Bill is also alleged to have been made when he was a teenager, supposedly within the same time frame as the above photo, though his age certainly seems more advanced here. He completely forgot basic information about himself , and, when he was asked a serious question regarding the past of Billy the Kid, he forgot that as well. There are many who outright lie and allege that Brushy Bill Roberts was proven a fraud, but under close examination this has no basis in fact. No kidding: Book details Billy the Kid's Hico connection this video demonstrates the undeniable sameness between four 'billy the kid' photos and four pictures of william henry 'brushy bill' roberts. supporters deny that Oliver P. Roberts, in the above census, is not their
lines of defense is: Brushy wasn't illiterate -but he wasnt literate
The interesting Story of Brushy Bill Roberts | AK Rifles Oliver Pleasant "Brushy Bill" Roberts (1862-1950) - Find a Grave - December 27, 1950 It is worthy of note that if Brushy Bill had been born in 1859, he would have been ninety at the time of his death from a massive heart attack in Hico, Texas. If Brushy Bill's story is true, then it would mean that Pat Garrett had shot a different person and had allowed Billy the Kid to escape. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Also, if Garrett
Jesse walked out of prison a free man and disappeared, never to be heard from again. 15 Brushy Bill Roberts Premium High Res Photos - Getty Images it was thought for years that he was left-handed,
the two met and went on a road trip to New Mexico. While Billy the Kid was of Scot-Irish decent, had
During the meeting Brushy gave his weak and
Five years later, in 1955, noted historian C. L. Sonnichsen, with information supplied by Morrison, wrote a book entitled Alias Billy the Kid, which fully detailed the case of Brushy Bill Roberts. He meant to say he was not a. Several of the things Brushy told Morrison, though at first glance may have seemed trivial, actually were very important, as few people, historians included, knew of them. These same men are the ones who got Pat Garrett elected Sheriff and who also branded a young cowhand named Billy "the Kid" as an outlaw in the press. the 'billy the kid' photos (some not yet verified) had to have the same long, snakelike fingers billy and brushy were known to have. He also stated that any differences in the picture of Brushy and Billy the Kid is that Billy the Kid's face was altered when getting his photo was being touched up. Lincoln and Fort Sumner, including Lobato (who supposedly helped one wannabe
the Kid. Disappointed Morrison and Brushy return to Texas. Hines told Morrison of his experiences in the Lincoln County Wars with 19th-century American frontier outlaw and gunman, Billy the Kid who was allegedly killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett on July 14, 1881, but he stunned Morrison by claiming that the Kid was still alive and living near Hamilton, Texas under the name Ollie L. "Brushy Bill" Roberts. I came across an interesting exchange between a researcher and Professor Alan Bovik, who performed the 1990 photographic comparison done on the photos of Brushy Bill Roberts and Billy. Why did he change his middle initial from P. to L.? indeed Billy the Kid just because Roberts knew a lot about the Lincoln County War and the life of Billy the Kidbut so did a lot
The 2014 book, "Billy the Kid: An Autobiography" by Daniel A. Edwards, tells the story of how former Hico resident William H. "Brushy Bill" Roberts came to have his picture taken. Billy the Kid went by several other names, includingHenry McCarty and William Henry Bonney, but in 1949 another name was added to the long list of his aliases: Brushy Bill Roberts. Billy the Kid he most certainly would not have forgotten something like
Morrison also attempted to track down former Evans Gang member Jim McDaniels, locating him in Round Rock, Texas. Brushy supporters disregard this evidence and their popular
Tri- Star-Boze Productions, Inc. 1996. would later go on to say that she was glad to live long enough to see him
remembered that Susan McSween was not present when Chapman was killed. including eyewitnesses accounts, said he was, while the Brushy Bill Roberts
The story of Brushy Bill Roberts begins in 1948 when an attorney named William Morrison heard that Sheriff Pat Garrett never actually managed to gun down Billy the Kid, who was safe and sound and living in the town of Hico, Texas, under his latest alias of Ollie Roberts, but most folks in the town knew him simply as Brushy Bill. unveiled that the Kid was actually ambidextrous, so now it's said
These claims are usually based on genealogical records of the actual Oliver P. Roberts prior to 1910, which do not match known photographs or facts that have been proven to be true about William Henry "Brushy Bill" Roberts. Also of note: there have been six books written on the Brushy Bill controversy. either, he wrote like a child, or
Lew Wallace back in 1879. From what it sounds like Morrison used
slip out of Fort Sumner), discredited all such claims and firmly stated that
Its important to remember that Oliver P. Roberts was a farmer and not an adventurer. and grew up with the stories. CREATIVE. The Kid also would have
No matter
He then researched the more mundane aspects of Brushy Bill Roberts' story and found numerous corroborations to his account in the historical record. Most historians would say that he didnt, but a legend of the Old West like Billy the Kid doesnt go down easy. The Roberts family has denied there is any possibility that 'Brushy Bill' could have been Billy the Kid. Top $76,000-a-year New Jersey boarding school admits 'more should have been done' to stop bullying of boy, 17, who took his own life after being falsely accused of rape face, but yet when you look at photos of Brushy, there's no scar at all. Brushy is literate! not Lutcida, so therefore this Oliver P. Roberts is not Brushy. Brushy's niece Geneva Pittman mentioned that Brushys birth is recorded in
misspelling error? Billy the Kid Museum, Hico, Texas - RoadsideAmerica.com supposedly received, would have immobilized him for days. All in all,
Brushy Bill Roberts never claimed to be a part of Jesse James' gang and there is absolutely no evidence to support this allegation. No. No sooner was Billy the Kids body laid to rest in Fort Sumner bogus
When his sons calmed him down, Anthony said that Brushy was the Kid. heart attack and died, but his claim to fame did not go with him; today some Billy the
meeting was set, it would've been a trap and Garrett would've arrested or
His parents were James H. and Mary Adeline Roberts. For example, he knew that Colonel Dudley's soldiers that entered Lincoln on July 19, 1878 were black, he knew all the details of how the Kid had to pay his lawyer for his services in his trial, he knew that Billy the Kid wrote a letter to Gov. vengeance over his employers grave during the funeral if he wasnt even
the Kid at Stinking Springs, Garrett took his prisoners to Fort Sumner,
In the late year of 1949 William Morrison of a law firm heard that Billy the Kid was not killed in Fort Sumner
thought: In March of 1879 Billy the Kid secretly met and made a bargain with
Over the next several months, Morrison met with Brushy several times and recorded his story in his journal and with a tape recorder. Bill Roberts from Lucas Speers Billy the Kid Web Site. Billy the Kid almost 70 years later! By the time he came to Hico, Brushy Bill was more than seventy years old. We also have Frank Lobato
Billy the Kid's true identity is still a matter of speculation. He managed to track him as far as Round Rock, Texas, but townsfolk there said that he had moved in 1945 to live out the rest of his days with his daughter in California. As he walked down the street, Brushy suffered a sudden heart attack. bargain he made with the governor to the news press. No, there has been no DNA study of either Billy the Kid's body or the body of Brushy Bill Roberts. Ollie P. Bill Roberts, also known as Brushy Bill. still other bits of evidence that squashes Brushys claim ( I would
Mary Roberts died in 1862 while James was off fighting with Quantrill in the Civil War. In a nutshell, Brushy's story went like this: he was born William Henry Roberts on December 31, 1859 in an area of Texas known as Buffalo Gap.
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