Eric+K.+-+I+am+Billy+the+Kid

My "I Am" person is Billy the Kid, a teenage cowboy who went through a lot of things as a young outlaw. Before I started my research on him, I already knew that he was a teenager that was seperated from his parents and had liberty in his actions, which led to his start in crime. I also knew that he was involved in the Lincoln County War, which is the main reason why his name is known. The last thing I knew about him was that his killer not only killed him, but also wrote a biography on the life of Billy the Kid, though most of it wasn't really true and that he was impersonated as a violent killer. I got a lot of this from a cartoon I saw a long time ago called //Time Squad//. Fun. When I was researching Billy the Kid, I had a lot of questions about this guy, seeing that he's one of those people that people don't really know about. Why in the world was his history blank for the first 8-10 years of his life? If they know his history in the later parts of his life, why not earlier either? Also, why did his stepfather leave Billy alone? What happened to that younger brother of his, Joseph? There are a lot of debate surrounding this guy. And now, for my super primary historical question:


 * Why did Billy the Kid become infamous from the Lincoln County War when others were involved too?**

=Timeline=

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=Primary Sources= Document Audio Video Visual Quotes
 * [|Letters Written by Billy the Kid]
 * //[|The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid by Pat Garrett]//
 * [|Interviews with Billy the Kid]

=Secondary Sources=
 * [|About Billy the Kid]