There was only
one photograph
of outlaw William Bonney, also known as Billy the Kid, in existence
-until now. A vintage photo collector bought a tintype at a Fresno junk
shop in 2010 which has been verified by a team of experts at Kagin’s as
depicting Bonney playing croquet during a wedding reception.
The
latest photo, a 4 x 5 inch tintype, captures Billy the Kid surrounded
by several members of his gang after a wedding, according to Kagin’s.
The outlaws are surrounded by friends and family in Chaves County, N.M.,
in the summer of 1878. The company said a team spent a year dissecting
the photo and determining the location, which required investigators to
travel to the supposed site where it was taken.
“We found the old
lumber underneath,” Jeff Aiello, who directed a National Geographic
Channel documentary about the photo, told ABC affiliate KFSN. “We found
those exact rock piers are still there.”
It’s not
only precious because of the scarcity of pictures of Bonney, but also
because it shows him with his gang, the Regulators. Kagin’s has already
fielded some offers for the picture, and expect it to sell in the
neighborhood of $5 million.
See the full picture and read more about it at The Washington Post.
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