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Related Historical Markers
By Bill Kirchner, July 24, 2011
Site of Squire Wilson's Home Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On Billy the Kid Trail (U.S. 380 at milepost 97.8), on the right when traveling east. |
| | South some 75 yds. was the lone adobe house of J.B. Wilson, noted J.P. in Lincoln Co. War. At night, Mar 17, 1879 he helped Gov. Lew Wallace meet with Bill Bonney, leader of remaining McSween men, and arranged a surrender under promise of protection. — — Map (db m45969) HM |
| On County Road 388 at County Road 267, on the right when traveling west on County Road 388. |
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
As sheriff of Lincoln County, Pat Garrett was charged with tracking down and arresting Billy the Kid, a friend from Garrett's saloon keeping days in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. He was captured in December 1880 . . . — — Map (db m83262) HM |
| On U.S. 70 at milepost 153.6 at South Jornada Road, on the right when traveling east on U.S. 70. |
| | Pat Garrett, the Lincoln County Sheriff who shot and killed William “Billy the Kid” Bonney at Fort Sumner in 1881, was himself murdered at a remote site nearby on February 29, 1908. Wayne Brazel, a local cowboy, confessed to shooting . . . — — Map (db m149330) HM |
| On North Virginia Avenue, on the left when traveling south. |
| | In the frontier west, Pat Garrett has to be considered as one of the most famous and effective of legendary law officers. Six feet, five inches tall, he was an imposing and implacable foe of western criminals. An honest and honorable lawman, . . . — — Map (db m73452) HM |
| On West San Francisco Street at Galisteo Street, on the left when traveling west on West San Francisco Street. |
| | The notorious New Mexico outlaw, also known as William Bonney, was captured and sucessfully imprisoned for the last time in the downstairs jail housed in this, the Cornell Building, at 208 W. San Francisco St., Santa Fe, from December 27, 1880 to . . . — — Map (db m73714) HM |
May. 7, 2024