14 DAY TRIAL // A historian believes that he has found the second ever authentic image of famed gunslinger Billy the Kid.
According to Fox News, the first photo was sold at auction in Denver two years ago, fetching $2.3 million (€1.73 million).
The tintype dates back to 1879, when William Henry McCarty Jr., also known as William Bonney or Henry Antrim would have been 20 years old. He died two years later when he was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico.
“The other individual had remained unidentified until recently when I identified him as Dan Dedrick, a very close friend of Billy’s. Identification of Dedrick is the ‘clincher’ in this image, elevating a near-certain image to a clearly and obvious picture of the Kid,” New Mexico historian Frank Parrish informs.
He tells the Albuquerque Journal that he has recovered the tintype, which cannot be reproduced, from an unnamed Mesilla Valley resident.