Trip Report: The Wild, Wild West
The first part of this trip report is probably going to be a little odd. The trip started out a little different than most of ours, but BEAR (pun) with me, it will return to a more traditional format ...
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The Mad Norsky wrote:
Good report and photos.
We wandered through that area years back. Is that the jail that Billy the Kid escaped from at one time?????????I do recall seeing that, but missed some of the other neat stuff you've posted here.
Yes. After being tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang for the ambush killing of Sheriff William J. Brady and his deputy George W. Hindman, he escaped from the jail on the top floor of the old Murphy-Dolan store after killing his two guards. He was tracked to Fort Sumner three months later by Sheriff Pat Garrett, who confronted him in a dark room and shot him.
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