On Billy the Kid Drive south of Pecan Drive, on the right when traveling south.
He was known by many names, William Henry McCarthy, William H. Bonney, but he was best known as "Billy the Kid." Born in New York City in 1859, he would find infamy in the old west as a hired gun, outlaw and other wise stone-cold killer. His mother . . . — — Map (db m269527) HM
• Billy the Kids tombstone was stolen in 1951. Its location was a mystery for twenty-six years until 1976 when it was recovered in Granbury, Texas, by Joe Bowlin.
• The tombstone was stolen again on Feb. 8, 1981 and recovered four days later . . . — — Map (db m269530) HM
On U.S. 60 at milepost 331, on the right when traveling west. Reported permanently removed.
The U.S. Army established Fort Sumner in 1862 as a supply and control point for the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation. About 10,000 Navajo were forcibly relocated from the Four-Corners Region during the tragic march known as the Long Walk. About 500 . . . — — Map (db m73718) HM
On State Road 272 south of State Road 212, on the right when traveling south.
You are entering the grounds of historic Fort Sumner, headquarters of the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation.
Over 400 Mescalero Apache and 7,000 Navajo were held here as prisoners of war. The museum tells their stories. — — Map (db m280103) HM
On Billy the Kid Drive south of Pecan Drive, on the right when traveling south.
Why Here?
General James H. Carleton, commanding the Military Department of New Mexico, ordered the establishment of Fort Sumner in late 1862. Carleton and others mistakenly believed the Pecos River and the land surrounding Fort Sumner would . . . — — Map (db m269513) HM
On Billy the Kid Drive south of Pecan Drive, on the right when traveling south.
A New Community
Following the disastrous failure of the U.S. Government's Bosque Redondo experiment, the land set aside as reservation returned to the public domain. The Army sold the fort buildings and other improvements to the famous . . . — — Map (db m269514) HM
Charlie Bowdre fought alongside Billy the Kid in the Lincoln County War. After losing the war, both he and the Kid retreated to Fort Sumner, NM, where Bowdre worked as a cowboy and was also suspect in Billy's outlaw endeavors. In December 1880 the . . . — — Map (db m269534) HM
A Navajo woman born in Canyon de Chelly, AZ, Deluvina was taken as a slave during an Apache raid when she was a child. Later adopted by Lucien Maxwell of Fort Sumner, she was a loyal servant of the Maxwell family.
She was present in Fort . . . — — Map (db m269544) HM
On State Road 60 at milepost 329.5, on the left when traveling east. Reported permanently removed.
Population 1,250 – Elevation 4,028 ft.
Named for the fort built in 1862 to guard the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation, the town of Fort Sumner grew out of settlements clustering around the Maxwell family properties. It moved to its present . . . — — Map (db m73721) HM
On U.S. 60 at State Road 20, on the right when traveling east on U.S. 60.
Population 1,250 – Elevation 4,028 ft.
Named for the fort built in 1862 to guard the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation, the town of Fort Sumner grew out of settlements clustering around the Maxwell family properties. It moved to its . . . — — Map (db m73722) HM
On U.S. 84 at Billy the Kid Drive, on the right when traveling west on U.S. 84.
Named for the fort built in 1862 to guard the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation, the town of Fort Sumner grew out of settlements clustering around the Maxwell family properties. It moved to its present site with the construction of the Belén Cutoff . . . — — Map (db m270116) HM
On U.S. 84 at Billy the Kid Drive, on the right when traveling west on U.S. 84.
Fort Sumner was established in 1862 to control the Diné (Navajo) and N'de (Mescalero Apache) who were forcibly marched from their homelands and interned at the Bosque Redondo Reservation. Conditions here caused great suffering. The N'de escaped in . . . — — Map (db m270115) HM
It is said that... While drunk one night, Grant had the misfortune of getting on the wrong side of "Billy the Kid" at Beaver Smith's saloon in Ft. Sumner, NM. After a heated discussion, Grant bet Billy $25 that he would kill a man first. Billy . . . — — Map (db m269524) HM
Near Billy the Kid Road (State Road 272) 0.1 miles south of State Road 212.
A native of Kaskaskia, Ill, a fur trader and trapper who by industry, good fortune and trading became sole owner in 1864 of the largest single tract of land owned by any one individual in the United States.
Maxwell founded the First National . . . — — Map (db m73719) HM
On Billy the Kid Road (State Road 272) south of State Road 212, on the right when traveling south. Reported permanently removed.
Fort Sumner was established in 1862 to guard the Navajo and Apaches on the Bosque Redondo reservation. It was discontinued as a military post in 1868 and the buildings and site sold to Lucien B. Maxwell. William "Billy the Kid" Bonney was killed . . . — — Map (db m73713) HM
Tom O'Folliard was the best friend of outlaw William Bonney (Billy the Kid). Both men were members of the Regulators during the Lincoln County War. O'Folliard was shot in the shoulder during the famous Five-Day Battle in Lincoln. After the war . . . — — Map (db m269532) HM
On Billy the Kid Drive south of Pecan Drive, on the right when traveling south.
Welcome to the cemetery at Historic Fort Sumner. The U.S. Army established this post cemetery in 1863, shortly after opening the nearby fort and the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation. Between 1863 and 1869, 22 soldiers and officers, along with . . . — — Map (db m269521) HM
On Billy the Kid Drive south of Pecan Drive, on the right when traveling south.
William "Billy the Kid" Bonney Grave 1859-1881
Henry McCarty is better known by his alias, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney. His family moved to the New Mexico territory in 1873. Bonney was charged with numerous thefts and involved in nine . . . — — Map (db m270111) HM
