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In 1878 he led a gang in the Lincoln co. cattle war, killed two deputies, and engaged in large scale cattle rustling. Billy the Kid was captured, tried, and sentenced to death. He escaped but was again trapped and was shot by Sheriff Pat F. Garrett.

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