In 1950, Ollie P. Roberts ( also known as Ollie L. Roberts, " Brushy Bill " Roberts, or William Henry Roberts ), a resident of Hico during the late 1940s, claimed to have been the outlaw Billy The Kid.

In 1949, a paralegal named William Morrison located a man in Central Texas named Ollie Partridge Roberts ( nicknamed Brushy Bill ), who claimed to be Billy the Kid and challenged the popular account of McCarty as shot to death by Pat Garrett in 1881.

Robert Stack did a segment on Brushy Bill in early 1990 on the NBC television series Unsolved Mysteries.

The film, however, is told by Brushy Bill Roberts, a man who in the 1940s appeared claiming to be the real Billy the Kid.

The film opens in 1950 with a young attorney talking to an elderly man named Brushy Bill Roberts, who claims that he is William H. Bonney ( aka Billy The Kid ), whom " everyone " knows to have been shot and killed by Pat Garrett in 1881.

The film ends with the lawyer being convinced that Brushy Bill is Billy the Kid.

The epilogue reveals that Dave was beheaded once he reached Mexico to discourage more outlaws from crossing the border, Garrett's book detailing his pursuit of Billy is a dismal failure and he is eventually shot and killed, and despite corroboration from several surviving friends of the outlaw, Brushy Bill Roberts was never credited as being Billy the Kid and he died shortly after.

The film ends saying that whether or not Brushy Bill was Billy the Kid remains a mystery.

The real Brushy Bill Roberts did in fact go before New Mexico Gov.

In the years since, historical and forensic evidence of varying degrees of credibility has emerged on both sides of the debate over the true identity of Brushy Bill Roberts.

The Brushy Bill story is another fascinating mystery of the Old West era.

Brushy Bill Roberts ( allegedly December 31, 1859December 27, 1950, possibly 1879December 27, 1950 ), a. k. a. Ollie Partridge Roberts or Ollie L. Roberts, attracted attention by claiming to be the infamous western outlaw Billy the Kid.

Robert Stack did a segment on Brushy Bill in early 1990 on the NBC television series Unsolved Mysteries.

Hines told Morrison of his experiences in the Lincoln County War with Billy the Kid who was killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett on July 14, 1881, but he stunned Morrison by claiming that the Kid was still alive and living near Hamilton, Texas under the name Ollie P. Roberts ( nicknamed " Brushy Bill ").

Brushy Bill claimed to have been born on December 31, 1859, by the name of William Henry Roberts in Buffalo Gap, Texas near Abilene.

However, the problem with her statement regarding the unknown birth date of Ollie L. Roberts is that Brushy Bill had disclosed that Oliver P. Roberts had been his distant cousin.

After Oliver P. Roberts died, Brushy Bill had assumed his identity.

Because Billy the Kid was about twenty-one at the time of his death in 1881, if either of the later two birth dates are true, then it would be impossible for Brushy Bill to have been the Kid.

Brushy had been living under the alias of Ollie L. Roberts, and from the time Geneva Pittmon was a little girl, she was told that Brushy Bill was her uncle Ollie.

Brushy Bill Roberts, could not convince his older half-sister, Martha V. Roberts that he was indeed Billy the Kid.

Ollie, aka " Brushy Bill " would come to her house in Jacksonville, Texas wearing his boots and cowboy hat, and he would tell everyone that he had a secret, that he was Billy the Kid, but they did not believe him.

It is worthy of note that if Brushy Bill had been born in 1859, he would have been ninety at the time of his death from a massive heart attack in Hico, Texas.

But Brushy Bill had each and every scar that Billy had ( and more ).

Brushy, who had apparently suffered a mild stroke, could not even remember Pat Garrett's name.

In addition to James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., notable inmates included Byron Looper, who was convicted in 2000 for the murder of State Senator Tommy Burks and began serving his life sentence at Brushy Mountain.

* June 10 – James Earl Ray escapes from the Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but he will be recaptured on June 13.

In June 1868 the court ordered that Carter County be divided into two precincts, with Precinct # 1 consisting of the western half of the county where voting was done in the courthouse, and Precinct # 2 in the eastern half with voting taking place at the home of John Carnahan on the head of the middle fork of Brushy Creek.

William Kirkendall received a certificate to teach a school at Brushy Creek near to where Ellsinore would one day be located.

It should be noted that the real Billy the Kid spoke Spanish fluently and could read and write ( his letters to Governor Lew Wallace seeking a pardon still survive ), but historians still argue over whether Brushy Bill was even literate or could speak Spanish at all.

Mabry did not believe Brushy Bill to be the Kid, and so he did not issue a pardon.

This labor conflict was eventually resolved in favor of the coal miners, with a bill passing the Tennessee state legislature to abolish the convict labor system, to be replaced by the Brushy Mountain Mine and Prison.

Despite discrepancies in birth dates and physical appearance, the town of Hico, Texas ( Brushy Bill's residence ), has capitalized on the Kid's infamy by opening the " Billy The Kid Museum ".

Brushy Bill's claim is promoted by the " Billy the Kid Museum " in his hometown of Hico in Hamilton County, Texas.

She never knew the truth of his identity, because her father, Thomas U. Roberts, had helped to hide Billy / Brushy.

On November 29, 1950, at a meeting with then New Mexico governor, Thomas J. Mabry, Brushy Bill was unable to convince the governor that he was Billy the Kid.

Photographs of Brushy Bill Roberts at age fourteen seemed to resemble the well known Dedrick-Upham tintype of Billy The Kid.

Both Acton and Bovik concluded that their result proved " beyond the shadow of a doubt " that Billy the Kid and Brushy Bill were the same person.

* Brushy Bill Roberts and Billy the Kid --- The Complete Facts at AngelFire. com

* 1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.

The county is divided into forty-nine townships: Ada, Anderson, Antelope, Barrett, Beck, Bison, Brushy, Burdick, Cash, Castle Butte, Chance, Chaudoin, Clark, De Witt, Duell, Englewood, Flat Creek, Foster, Fredlund, Glendo, Grand River, Hall, Highland, Horse Creek, Liberty, Lincoln, Lodgepole, Lone Tree, Maltby, Marshfield, Martin, Meadow, Moreau, Plateau, Rainbow, Rockford, Scotch Cap, Sidney, Strool, Trail, Vail, Vickers, Viking, Vrooman, Wells, White Butte, White Hill, Wilson, and Wyandotte ; and eight areas of unorganized territory: Duck Creek, East Perkins, Independence, Pleasant Valley, South Perkins, Southwest Perkins, West Central Perkins, and West Perkins.

The county is divided into twenty-two townships: Antioch, Beaver Creek, Boomer, Brushy Mountains, Edwards, Elk Creek, Hays, Jobs Cabin, Lewis Fork, Lovelace, Moravian Falls, Mulberry, New Castle, North Wilkesboro, Rock Creek, Somers, Stanton, Traphill, Union, Walnut Grove, Millers Creek and Wilkesboro.

Wilkes County is also home to the annual Brushy Mountain Apple Festival, which is held in downtown North Wilkesboro the first weekend in October.

The county is divided into fifteen townships: Bald Mountain, Beaverdam, Blowing Rock, Blue Ridge, Boone, Brushy Fork, Cove Creek, Bethel, Deep Gap, Meat Camp, New River, North Fork, Shawneehaw, Stony Fork, and Todd.

Caldwell County is divided into three distinct geographic sections: the Blue Ridge Mountains, which dominate the northern and western parts of the county ; the gently rolling Piedmont country in the middle and southern parts of the county ; and the Brushy Mountains, an isolated remnant of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The county's main geographic feature is the Brushy Mountains, a deeply eroded spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west.

The eastern section of the county is drained by Cane Creek, Beaver Dam Creek, Little Black and Big Brushy Creek, all of which are tributaries of Black River.

Another nearby tunnel, the Brushy Mountain tunnel at Divide, is currently used by bicyclists and joggers as a part of the Georgia / Alabama Silver Comet Trail.

Dedham is located at ( 41. 908650 ,-94. 822832 ) at the junction of Brushy and Dedham Creeks.

The southwestern corner of town is relatively flat plains, while the rest is dominated by hills, the tallest of which is Brushy Mountain, with an elevation of.

Love Valley is a small, unique town located in a remote valley in the Brushy Mountains of northwestern North Carolina.

Pores Knob, the highest peak in the Brushy Mountains, is located in Moravian Falls.

Brushy is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States, along U. S. Route 59 in the foothills of the Brushy Mountains.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Brushy has a total area of, of which, of it is land and of it ( 0. 23 %) is water.

The formerly separate village of Locustville, which grew up along Brushy Brook, is now part of Hope Valley.

Brushy Creek is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Williamson County, Texas, United States.

Brushy Creek is located at ( 30. 510970 ,-97. 734697 ), just west of Round Rock along the shore of Brushy Creek.