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In 1882 a notorious outlaw and a childhood friend of Billy the Kid was released from prison where he had been serving time for killing a Texas Ranger. His freedom finally secured, the outlaw disappeared and was never heard from again. Never, that is, until 1948 when he came out of hiding after almost 70 years. In the course of proving his identity to a court of law the outlaw revealed that his friend Billy the Kid was not killed by Pat Garrett but was still alive even to that day. After a period of research and persistence the young lawyer was finally led to a destitute old man in Hico Texas . . . Read more Look inside

Found Inside: Kemp, David Lyle (b. March 1, 1862, Hamilton County Texas, d. January 4, 1935, Higgins Texas. Farmer, rancher, butcher, cattle rustler, gambler, law officer.)

As a youth in Hamilton, Texas, Kemp killed a man named Smith. Kemp was sentenced to be hanged, and in panic he tore away from his guards and jumped out of a second-story courthouse window. He broke both ankles in the fall, but somehow clambered onto a horse . . . Read more

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