Billy The Kid Resting Place. Fort sumner new mexico. A new billy the kid.
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On july 14 1881 21 year old william bonney better known as the outlaw billy the kid was famously shot and killed by sheriff pat garrett in fort sumner new mexico. Billy the kids grave is within walking distance of a fort that was built in the 1800 s. Since the grave is outdoors its free to visit and there is a museum dedicated to billy the kid in the town of.
Sumner where we stopped off to take a photo of billy the kid s gravesite for connor and joey then continued on route 70 looking forward to seeing the muleshoe wildlife refuge in texas where the sand hill cranes winter.
Fort sumner new mexico. He was quickly buried the. Billy the kids grave is within walking distance of a fort that was built in the 1800 s. It s not that he was never buried in the fort sumner cemetery it s just that the gravesite was left unmarked for over 30 years after the cemetery was washed out in the great pecos river flood in 1904.
