Brushy in Mexico

[MissyS]

I stumbled across a few things in a article, a mention of a Mrs Annie Dyer Nunn who was a writer in Amarillo Tx who remembered that she had an interview with a person, an elderly Mexican from Deming NM that told her that Billy the Kid was alive and operating a small ranch in Mexico, that interview was  ten years before the article was printed which would have been in 1928, It’s interesting that Annie sent a letter addressed to William H Bonney at the address that person gave her and she never got a reply back, however she didn’t get the letter back either, it was found in the Amarillo Sunday News-Globe August 14, 1938, a lengthy article about Billy the Kid. Also I wasn’t aware that Maj. Gordon W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill) and a Rev. J W E Airy came to New Mexico to search about facts on Billy the Kid’s death to present it to the National Frontier Association, Pawnee Bill had with him an affidavit from a man named Ben Herbert from Taos that said a man that loaned him a horse in a flash flood in 1889 was the Kid. There was also another claimant an Amarillo Plumbing inspector that while working at the Old Chisum ranch said a rider came there, and after the rider left an elderly Mexican on the ranch told him the rider that left was Billy the Kid. That was 35 years before the article so it had to have been in 1903. While reading old news articles I’m stumbling across many witnesses or claimants that claimed to have seen Billy the Kid alive after July 14, 1881. I don’t know how true they are? but so many seems to be more than a coincidence especially when one may coincide with Brushy’s claims, and also one that was said to have signed an affidavit to their claim. I don’t know Brushy’s location was in 1928?, but he said he went to Mexico a few years & lived amongst some Yaqui Indians before arriving in Texas, and I thought he mentioned being involved with Villa and Carranza in the Mexican Revolution, I don’t know when that was?   Just wondering the possibility that he operated a ranch in Mexico?

[devorerd]

Thank you for sharing, fascinating. When listening to stories I always look for the motive behind the statements, i.e..what does the individual have to "gain" to help answer the "Why" behind their comments. If the statement is preposterous, the risk profile goes way up...Humans in general do not enjoy being proven wrong. so as to your point, coincidences lead more often to truth than they don't.