Well, some of the answers are already found throughout my website.  Anways.....

There's conflicting info on whether or not Billy smoked, some accounts said yes and others said he never touched tobacco in any form (smoke or chew). In those days, majority of men smoked, chew or drank, so it's possible Billy did as well, but due to conflicting info on those habits I would say he did it in moderation and not heavily -if he even did at all.

As for sports, Billy favored horse racing. He not only liked to bet and watch it, but participated in it as well. He also liked competing in target shooting. Then of course there was card playing and he enjoyed Monte the most.

I have no idea what Billy ate most of the time or what his favorite food was. Because the Hispanic culture was dominating in New Mexico, he most likely ate a lot of Mexican-type of food. After his capture by Pat Garrett and on a train to Santa Fe, where he was to be locked up, he ate a lot of candy and pie, so I guess you can say he had a sweet tooth.

As a youngster Billy was an avid reader of books. What type of books? Probably the popular ones of his era like Mark Twains' Tom Sawyer. He also read dime novels, which were short fictional stories. As he got older he focused more on the newspapers and gazettes -probably to see what they were writing about him. In those days youngster didn't look to current figures of their era as role models, but just like kids today, they looked to ones in fiction or history. As a young boy in Silver City, Billy and his friends like to play pirates, not cowboys and Indians.

As for other tidbits on Billy, if you haven't already, I recommend you reading my web page Did you know...?

I'm sorry Marcelle, I must be becoming a pain, but I must ask a few questions here and there, I'm terribly interested.

To add to my above questions, here are a few more. I hope you don't mind?

Aside from wheather Billy could grow a beard or not? Did he have sideburns, small, large? (ie: Like Emilio's from Young Guns)?

How did he wear his hair? (parted, longer style, shoulder length/caller length, short)?

I know he could speak Spanish, but could he write in Spanish? (also who else in his family spoke it? mother/stepfather/father/brother etc.)

I'm terribly interested in his relationships with people, especially his mother/brother, were they close? stepfather to, everything. Before Billy's mom died were they very close, do things together etc. When Billy's mom died his stepfather left for CA (I think) Billy stayed, but did his brother stay to? Can you branch into that and what their relationship was like.

You said in the Did you know? category that he attended religion, do you know what kind of religion he was? or the religion he attended?

As I stated, I'm terribly interested in Billy's relationships, in this particular sentence however, I'm very interested in the women in his life, I've read some about it, but it doesn't answer some of my questions. Before his outlaw ways like when he lived in town went to school etc. was there a special girl or girls? Did he have a relationship or something more? Was he shy around the girls?

Also you stated that he had a crush on his school teacher, how old was Billy at this time? How old was the school teacher, any photo's or descriptions of her? Did he ever tell her he liked her? Did they form a relationship, or kiss etc.?

You mentioned he supposedly gambled with Doc Holliday, had dinner with Jesse James and did a target shooting contest with Bat Masterson. Do you have any other info of this?

Thank you again Marcelle I appreciate the work that goes into your answers and of course your web site. I hope answering my questions doesn't become tiresome.

Jack.

Good Heavens Jack! That's alot of questions to fire at a person. Well, alot of what you're asking is already on my website or just isn't known. Other then what we see in the tintype of Billy the Kid, I have no idea how he combed his hair or how tan he was.  Billy learned Spanish from being around the Mexican people, so like most in that case he probably couldn't read or write in Spanish. We don't know much about his religion but his mother was married in a Presbyterian church and I believe the church services he attended in Lincoln was of the Presbyterian faith as well. As for facial hair…no, he was still a youth with fuzz just starting to grow on his upper lip when he was killed.  Billy and his teacher had a good student-teacher relationship and Billy would joke they were related because they were both amdexitous.  Billy was only 12-13 at the time, it was only a school boy crush -nothing more. Most of the answers you can find on my Biography web pag.

Have you read my Antrim Family web page? Because majority of the answers are found there. There is very little known on Billy the Kid's mother, Catherine, and the early life of Billy the Kid, everthing I could possibly tell you is already on my website. As for answers to your questions that aren't found on my website.......

Questions: "So she must have always spoke with an Ireland accent? Did she like Billy speek Spanish fluent? I've heard here say that its even possible Billy was born in Ireland? what do you think? Did he have an accent of somesort? (ie: Spanish/Irish or regular New Mexican talk)?"

Answer: It's possible she spoke with a little bit of an Irish accent, which explains why Ash Upson (co-author of "The Authetic Life of Billy the Kid") said she was apparently of Irish decent, so he either figured that out by her accent or she told him when he was boarding at her cabin in Silver City. I don't believe Billy was born in Ireland; there's nothing to even suggest the idea, so some of those people are just making speculations. I lean towards New York or Indiana as being Billy's birth place, but quite frankly, we just don't know. As for Billy's accent, he probably sounded just like everyone else did in the Southwest.

Question: Billy lived in a time where a lot of people were racist. Was Billy racist against the African Americans? Even was he racist against the Chinese etc.? I'm not sure about the Asian American history, with building the railway etc. Were Asian Americans highly populated in New Mexico?

Answer: Billy didn't patronize the Mexicans, so I doubt he was a racist or at least a strong one. There's no record of him having any encounters with African-Americans, although there were buffalo soldiers in New Mexico. There were a fair amount of Chinese around the mining towns when Billy was a child. One story goes that the Silver City children will tease the Chinese and throw rocks at them, I have no idea if Billy took part in this.

The rest of what I can tell you is on my Antrim Family web page.