Shoot, I missed Wild West Tech again! I don't watch much TV, I'm ususally on the computer answering emails or involved in a book, so I'm constantly missing out on these programs I want to see.
Well, I've already heard more than once that Billy was gay (yeah right ), and now he's a woman? I heard somewhere about this silly notion that Billy was a girl, but I can't remember where. Fred Nolan once joked about it with me and I didn't think much of it. Well, it's turning out this "silly notion" is getting more attention as a possible "theory" (from what you mentioned). All I can say is this is just further example of the silliness that people come up with regarding Billy the Kid. I just hope most folks have the sense to stay clear from this kind've nonsense. What could possibly be next?
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I watched the Wild West Tech last night, and it was pretty amusing and informative...it was basically about prostitutes and brothels in the old west. I'll leave it at that, I'm sure kids may be reading this
They did mention Billy the Kid, and how he came into play in this episode is when he was at the Hog Ranch in Arizona...not really a hog ranch but a brothel...anyway, what they said was that he hung around while the men went inside, and he would steal thier saddles...many of them got fed up with having thier saddles stolen, so they would tie a thin rope to the saddle, and go inside and have fun, figuring that if the saddle is stolen, they would feel the tug at the rope and they would catch the thief. The way Billy outsmarted them there is that he would tie that rope to a tree very carefully and take thier saddles anyway
They did mention that there was a rumor that Billy was a woman, or at least a transvestite, dressed as a woman to have relations with men. I think this rumor was probably started when he was a younger kid, when he and his friends used to go galavanting around town dressed like women just for kicks. (Keep in mind he was a little kid back then, and he thought it was halarious! ) I never thought he was gay or a transvestite because of it though!
I have no doubt billy wasn,t a girl or gay or a transvestite and it makes me laugh all the people out there in the world who try to degrade him,i would like to see them walk the road billy walked and then we would see how smart they were.