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Post by chivato88 on Aug 2, 2022 16:57:15 GMT -5
The last building at Blazers still standing
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Post by chivato88 on Aug 2, 2022 16:57:40 GMT -5
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Post by chivato88 on Aug 2, 2022 16:58:04 GMT -5
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Post by Elwood on Aug 3, 2022 14:34:25 GMT -5
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Post by paddyrobertstx on Aug 3, 2022 15:28:43 GMT -5
Haven't been across to blazers Mill as keepnsearchingbfor some answers from these old journals. Are there any brave markers there for Brewer and Buckshot?
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Post by chivato88 on Aug 3, 2022 16:58:42 GMT -5
Haven't been across to blazers Mill as keepnsearchingbfor some answers from these old journals. Are there any brave markers there for Brewer and Buckshot? I have not either but I will in 3 years when I retire. Just posting cool pics that I fimd online.
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Post by chivato88 on Aug 3, 2022 17:00:18 GMT -5
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Post by paddyrobertstx on Aug 4, 2022 3:08:55 GMT -5
cool pics Chivato, thanks - need to learn a bit more about this event so will be planning some weekend reading!
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Post by chivato88 on Aug 4, 2022 5:01:42 GMT -5
cool pics Chivato, thanks - need to learn a bit more about this event so will be planning some weekend reading! [b Most of them came from the Billy the Kid coalition page on facebook, I was not suppose to post them here, they would have kick me out but I left anyways with some cool pics.I tought there was some kind of neutral ground when it came to Brushy but believe me there was not. Did not liked them at all!!
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Post by paddyrobertstx on Aug 4, 2022 7:26:12 GMT -5
yep seems that anyone with a tourist/literature or financial link to BtK dying in NM isdead against any truith ever coming out...wonder why Mabry was so dismissive...
will have a read through these old books and see what links i can find between Blazers Mill
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Post by leeb on Aug 4, 2022 13:02:44 GMT -5
yep seems that anyone with a tourist/literature or financial link to BtK dying in NM isdead against any truith ever coming out...wonder why Mabry was so dismissive... will have a read through these old books and see what links i can find between Blazers Mill of course tourism is important but when it comes to truth, the fact that BTK was killed by Mr Garrett on the 14/7/1881 is as plain as the nose on your face. Poor old brushy was probably one of the biggest tourism gimmicks that was ever exploited. Sad really.
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Post by paddyrobertstx on Aug 4, 2022 13:24:02 GMT -5
Oh well I'm glad you have it all written up and verified with no grey areas. Guessing the DNA evidence is on its way? There's a few holes in both stories but I am so.pleased you are finally able to put this to bed
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Post by MissyS on Aug 4, 2022 14:31:11 GMT -5
Thank You, chivato88 for sharing these. It’s sad that this historical site looks so dilapidated, I wish either the State or whomever that’s so much depending on the Billy the Kid tourism could restore this place to its splendor before it turns out like the hut at Stinking Springs, nothing left but scattered bricks or stones in the weeds. I’v noticed that there’s been Billy the Kid items and other items related to the Lincoln County War that were offered up for auction from museums and historical homes up for sale in the Lincoln area, and now I see these photos of a historical site that was a part of the Lincoln County War yet deteriorating, it seems to me that tourist dollars isn’t so important like it was. The State and Counties seemed to cared to try and keep these towns and sites as much unchanged as possible as to how it was in Billy the Kid’s time. Maybe the generation of people that wanted to cherish the past and loved it’s history and wanted to hang on to it is fading to a new generation that don’t care so much about the history to invest in its past? I hope I’m wrong.
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Post by texas truth teller on Aug 4, 2022 17:33:54 GMT -5
Oh well I'm glad you have it all written up and verified with no grey areas. Guessing the DNA evidence is on its way? There's a few holes in both stories but I am so.pleased you are finally able to put this to bed It is extremely unlikely that DNA test results will ever be available. There are more than a few holes in both stories. This is not one of them. Men born before 1871 were not required to register for the draft. Brushy Bill registered 12 Sep 1918 for the WWI draft as Oliver Pleasant Roberts, born 26 August 1878. He identified his nearest relative as Mollie Roberts. On page 57 of “Alias Billy the Kid”, Brushy said he met and married Mollie Brown in 1912. Records show she was buried in 1919 in Pauley Cemetery, Cerro Gordo, Arkansas. FAG #94665895 Geneva Roberts Pittman, a niece of Oliver P Roberts, correctly stated that Oliver P Roberts was born 26 Aug 1879. The 1879 birth month and year is consistent with information in the 1900 census. Why did Brushy never use his "real" name, William Henry Roberts, on marriage or death records? Why did Brushy register for the draft if he was born in 1859? Why did Brushy fail to tell Morrison that one of his aliases was "Oliver P Roberts"?
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Post by Wayne Land on Aug 4, 2022 20:48:06 GMT -5
Again the draft comments. I wasn't around to know what it was like in 1918 but I can suggest there was much pressure on eligible men to show up and register. Assuming that was the case, Brushy, who was pretending to be Oliver P. Roberts born 1879 would have been someone the authorities would have expected to register, regardless of what his real, undisclosed birthdate was. So if he was questioned about whether he had registered he wasn't going to say "I don't have to because I'm not really Oliver P. and I was in fact born before 1871." He would likely have been asked to prove that which he wouldn't want to do because he didn't want to be arrested and hung as Billy The Kid.
So, he went in and registered figuring that was the best way he could protect his true identity.
I'm not saying I can prove any of that, but heck, you can't prove your theories either. I know you think you can, but thinking it doesn't make it so.
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