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- The Emergence of Brushy Bill Roberts
- Was Brushy Bill Roberts Actually Billy The Kid?
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Almost 70 years after Billy the Kid’s death (or alleged death, according to some), a man named Joe Hines made an interesting confession to his lawyer, William Morrison. In the midst of attempting to claim land belonging to his deceased brother, Hines told his lawyer that he was, in fact, Jesse Evans, a famous Wild West outlaw who had disappeared af...
While there were doubts about Brushy Bill Roberts’ credibility – a Roberts family Bible listed Oliver Roberts’ birth date as sometime in 1879, an impossibility if he was truly Billy the Kid, who died in 1881 – many believed his story. Supporters claimed that if Oliver Roberts was an identity he had simply adopted, he wouldn’t have cared about the b...
The debate over the validity of Brushy Bill Roberts’ claim has persisted into this century. In 2015, television personality Bill O’Reilly mentioned Brushy Bill Roberts in a book of his own and claimed that the amount of evidence supporting Roberts’ claim outweighed the amount that didn’t. Though numerous attemptshave been made, the most recent in 2...
Brushy Bill Roberts was a Texas outlaw who claimed to be Billy the Kid, the famous Wild West bandit who died in 1881. He said he escaped from prison and lived under a different name for 70 years, but his story is disputed and unproven.
Mar 30, 2017 · Hico, Texas, celebrates Brushy Bill Roberts, who claimed to be Billy the Kid, the notorious gunman killed in 1881. Learn about the evidence, the controversy, and the legacy of this old man's tall tale.
May 10, 2024 · Bill Roberts is the oldest person to have abseiled the Empire State Building. A daredevil 79-year-old from Wales joined Hollywood star Jared Leto and a group of others to abseil...
Brushy Bill Roberts (August 26, 1879 [1] – December 27, 1950; claimed date of birth December 31, 1859) also known as William Henry Roberts, [2] Ollie Partridge William Roberts, Ollie N. Roberts, or Ollie L. Roberts, was an American man who attracted attention in the late 1940s and the 1950s by claiming to be Western outlaw William H. Bonney ...
Aug 27, 2016 · Brushy Bill Roberts was a Texas resident who said he was the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid, who was killed in 1881. He had the same scars as the Kid and claimed to have a pardon from the governor, but his story was not taken seriously by most historians.
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Learn about the story of Brushy Bill Roberts, a local frontier character who claimed to be Billy the Kid in 1950. Find out the evidence, the doubts, and the new research that supports his identity.
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