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Billy the Kid (1859-1882)

A veritable Irish desperado if ever there was one, Billy the Kid was born 'Henry McCarty', the son of an Irish emigrant, and raised amid the ramshackle tenements of New York's Lower East Side before he headed off to the Wild West.