The story ends here, where Billy the Kid rests in peace.
Behind the Old Fort Sumner Museum is the Post Cemetery, containing the Kid’s grave (alongside those of pals Tom O’Folliard and Charlie Bowdre). Nearby are Lucien and Pete Maxwell’s graves.
Entry via an outside gate is free. Behind the cemetery is the post’s access, the Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner State Monument.
Facts about Billy the Kid:
After the Kid’s death, many of the principals who had survived the Lincoln County War moved onward. Many of Billy’s pals had already gone straight.
Not reelected, Garrett returned to ranching northwest of the village of Ruidoso in 1884, then went back to hunting outlaws, this time in Texas. Garrett was murdered six miles northeast of downtown Las Cruces on Feb. 29, 1908.
