National Geographic Special

[Hopeful1 (imported)]

National Geographic is doing a special Sunday night about a tintype bought as part of a group of items in a Fresno, CA junk shop in 2010 for $2.00 USD. It's a picture of a group of people playing croquet at a wedding in New Mexico in 1878. The thing about this particular tintype is four of the people in the picture have been identified by facial recognition software as Lincoln County Regulators and one of the people holding a croquet mallet has been identified as William Bonney aka Billy the Kid. Considering the only previously known image of Billy was a tintype made in 1880 and sold for 2.1 million USD in 2011, this man's $2 investment is probably going to net him millions. Once source even said it might go for as much as 5 million.

For those not familiar with our western lore, Google Lincoln County Range War, Lincoln County Regulators and William Bonney to see what I'm talking about.

H1

[Dave (imported)]

National Geographic is doing a special Sunday night about a tintype bought as part of a group of items in a Fresno, CA junk shop in 2010 for $2.00 USD. It's a picture of a group of people playing croquet at a wedding in New Mexico in 1878. The thing about this particular tintype is four of the people in the picture have been identified by facial recognition software as Lincoln County Regulators and one of the people holding a croquet mallet has been identified as William Bonney aka Billy the Kid. Considering the only previously known image of Billy was a tintype made in 1880 and sold for 2.1 million USD in 2011, this man's $2 investment is probably going to net him millions. Once source even said it might go for as much as 5 million.

For those not familiar with our western lore, Google Lincoln County Range War, Lincoln County Regulators and William Bonney to see what I'm talking about.

H1

Huffington Post has a story about the upcoming special:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bil ... dd7ea5c4b4

[devi (imported)]

I always kind of thought Billy the Kid was either a eunuch or an inter-gender (like many of us here), or else a "trans-man" of the time since testosterone wasn't that widely accessible if at all. With the relative lack of record keeping and birth certificates persons in the past could and often did reassign themselves to differing genders from what they had been assigned to at birth, unlike today. Often many frontier women would find themselves alone but with access to men's clothing. It was (and still is) much safer to be a man when alone in the company of others.