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Billy the Kid is the most remembered gunfighter of the Lincoln County War
Photographer: Tintype by Ben Wittick (PD) via Wikimedia Commons
Taken: Circa 1880
Caption: Billy the Kid is the most remembered gunfighter of the Lincoln County War
Additional Description: The only surviving authenticated portrait of Billy the Kid. This tintype portrait sold at auction in June 2011 for USD $2,300,000. This copy retouched and restored by Mmxx. The tintype process produces reversed images - Billy the Kid wore his pistol on his right side.
Submitted: March 11, 2023, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p710912
File Size: 7.141 Megabytes

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