Billy the Kid

Choose an answer from the three choices offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1) What is NOT a name Billy the Kid was known as?

• Henry McCarty
• William Harrison Bonney
• Joseph Antrim

2) Little is known about McCarty's background, but he is thought to have been born on Allen Street on the lower east side of Manhattan Island, New York. What was the date most historians belief he was born on?

• November 1, 1857
• November 23, 1858
• January 1, 1859

3) In 1873, Billy the Kid and his family moved to what New Mexico town?

• Las Vegas
• Roswell
• Silver City

4) By most accounts, Billy killed his first man in August 1877. Who was the man?

• Frank Marshall
• Frank "Windy" Cahill
• Heiskell Jones

5) Billy was on the run again, it is this time historians believe he started using the “William H. Boney” name. He moved to what New Mexico county during the fall of 1877?

• Adams County
• Lincoln County
• Lee County

6) Name the rancher who hired Billy?

• John Tunstall
• Bill Morton
• Frank Baker

7) Billy and other ranch hands took up arms in revenge of their boss being gunned down unarmed. They formed a group led by ranch hand Richard "Dick" Brewer. What was the gang’s name?

• Regulators
• Avengers
• Young Guns

8) In the fall of 1878, Lew Wallace a former Union general was appoint Governor of New Mexico. Want to put the events to rest of the Lincoln County War he agreed to let Billy the Kid become free after testily. Billy testified in court, but the local prosecutor disregarded Wallace’s order to free “the kid.” Billy escaped again. Wallace is probably best known as the author of a classic novel. What is the title?

• Gone With the Wind
• Ben Hur
• The Virginian

9) Billy remained free for the next year and a half. In managed to arrest Billy. On December 23, 1880 the new Lincoln County sheriff and his deputies managed to capture Billy and his gang. On April 13, Billy was sentenced by Judge Warren Bristol to hang. The execution was scheduled for May 13, and he was sent to Lincoln to await this date, held under guard by two of the sheriff's deputies, James Bell and Robert Ollinger, on the top floor of the town's courthouse. On April 28, while the sheriff was out of town, Billy stunned the territory by killing both of his guards and escaping. Who was the Lincoln County sheriff?

• John Chisium
• Pat Garrett
• “Texas” John Slaughter

10) What was the New Mexico town where Henry McCarty, alias Henry Antrim, alias William H. Bonney, alias Billy the Kid finally meet his end?

• Santa Rosa
• Roswell
• Fort Sumner