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Questa, Taos County, New Mexico, 1943.
新墨西哥州的陶斯郡 (Taos County) :這是比利小子的故鄉

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比利小 (Billy the Kid) 於1881430日逃獄了

比利小子不是你會喜歡的那種人。雖然他是蠻荒西部的代表人物,但是比利小子卻是於1859年或1860年在紐約市東區出生的。當他還是個十幾歲的青少年時,他和他的家人搬到新墨西哥州,途中還經過堪薩斯與科羅拉多州。在他還是個男孩的時候,比利小子和他的同黨就開始在墨西哥的西南與北方咆哮肆虐。這張圖片裡的環境對一個歹徒來說是相當熟悉的。而比利小子就是個歹徒。


Billy the Kid is not someone you would want to be like. Although he has become a symbol of the legendary Wild West, Billy the Kid was born on New York City's East Side, in 1859 or 1860. As a young teenager, he moved with his family to New Mexico, by way of Kansas and Colorado. While still a boy, Billy the Kid began roaming the Southwest and northern Mexico, frequently with gangs. The landscape in this photograph was familiar to the outlaw. And an outlaw he was.
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