Photos: Billy the Kid anniversary
Billy the Kid was first arrested Sept. 23, 1875, for stealing a basket of laundry. He was probably between 14 and 16 years old at the time. He escaped and began a life of crime throughout the west, including Arizona.
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Visitors to Old Lincoln Days in Lincoln, New Mexico, tour the Courthouse Museum Saturday, August 2, 2008. The courthouse was the location where Billy the Kid made his daring escape in 1881. (AP Photo/Roswell Daily Record, Mark Wilson)
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The Arizona Pioneers Home Cemetery, shown here in Prescott, Ariz., in an April 27, 2006 file photo, is the site where two men dug up a grave last year to find out if outlaw turned American legend Billy the Kid was buried there. Prosecutors won't seek charges against two men who exhumed the remains. Tom Sullivan and Steve Sederwall faced being charged with a felony for removing partial remains of John Miller, the man who had claimed to be William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid. (AP Photo/Tom Hood, File)
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This is an undated photo of a painting of "Billy the Kid," western outlaw of the late 19th century also known as William Bonney. (AP Photo)
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This undated photograph shows what is thought to be famed gunslinger Billy the Kid (William Bonney) near the age of 18. If the claim is verified, it would be only the second known image of Billy the Kid. (AP-Photo/HO/-undated-)
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Bob Hefner poses in the Billy the Kid Museum in Hico, Texas, Wednesday, June 25, 2003. Hefner, founder of the museum in Hico, says New Mexico has consistently ignored evidence supporting Brushy Bill was Billy the Kid, including affidavits from those who acknowledged the two were the same. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam)
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The gravestone of Billy the Kid's mother, Catherine Antrim is adorned, Jan. 13, 2004, with artificial flowers in Silver City, N.M. On Jan. 23, 2004, a judge agreed to postpone a hearing until August on whether to allow the exhumation of the body of Antrim, mother of Billy the Kid, from a Silver City cemetery. The sheriffs of Lincoln and DeBaca counties have petitioned the court to allow Antrim's DNA to be tested and eventually compared with DNA taken from the body buried under the Kid's gravestone in Fort Sumner; and-or from a Hico, Texas, resident who claimed to be Billy the Kid until his death in 1950; and-or from the Kid's brother, Joseph Antrim, who died in 1930, if his remains can be located. Antrim's first name was accidentally misspelled with a "K" on her headstone. (AP Photo/Julie Aicher)
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The Neely Ranch, famed as the hideout of Billy the Kid, Geronimo and Pancho Villa, is shown in this undated photo. The 47,292-acre ranch is hidden in the foothills of New Mexico's Gila Wilderness. (AP Photo)
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Jarvis Patrick Garrett, grandson of frontier lawman Pat Garrett, speaks Thursday, July 29, 2010 at the La Posada Hotel in Santa Fe, N.M. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is considering granting a posthumous pardon to Billy the Kid, angering descendants of Pat Garrett who call it an insult to recognize such a violent outlaw. (AP Photo/Sergio Salvador)
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Susannah Floyd Garrett, left, and her brother Jarvis Patrick Garrett, grandchildren of frontier lawman Pat Garrett, pose for photos Thursday, July 29, 2010 at the La Posada Hotel in Santa Fe, N.M. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is considering granting a posthumous pardon to Billy the Kid, angering descendants of Pat Garrett who call it an insult to recognize such a violent outlaw. (AP Photo/Sergio Salvador)
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Jarvis Patrick Garrett, left, and his sister Susannah Garrett, descendants of frontier lawman Pat Garrett, answer questions outside the State Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M., on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010, after meeting with Gov. Bill Richardson about their opposition to the idea of posthumously pardoning outlaw Billy the Kid. After the meeting, the Garretts said Richardson told them he hasn't made a decision about a pardon. (AP Photo/Barry Massey)
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Susannah Garrett, left, and her brother Jarvis Patrick Garrett, descendants of frontier lawman Pat Garrett, look at a petition opposing the idea of posthumously pardoning outlaw Billy the Kid after meeting with Gov. Bill Richardson in Santa Fe, N.M., on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. After the meeting, the Garretts said Richardson told them he hasn't made a decision about a pardon. (AP Photo/Barry Massey)
At least five live rounds were fired in the weekend stunt show.