Although Wilkes County has never had a severe earthquake, an ancient fault line runs through the Brushy Mountains, and mild earth tremors are not uncommon.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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 ").

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.

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.

Maercus L. Giles received a certificate to teach a public school which was probably located somewhere on upper Big Brushy Creek.

Bob Young, Alton Thorton, W. F. Hafer, Jimmy Ramage, Ablo Norman, Tom Turner, and L. L. Gamble also said Brushy was fluent in Spanish.

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

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

Pre-historic and Archaic " open occupation " campsites are also found throughout the county along streams and other water sources including Brushy Creek in Round Rock and the San Gabriel River in Georgetown.

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 extreme western section of the county contains the Brushy Mountains, a deeply eroded spur of the much higher Blue Ridge Mountains to the west.

Yadkin County marks the eastern end of the Brushy Mountains range ; none of the peaks rise more than 400-500 feet above the surrounding countryside.

The Brushy Mountains, an isolated spur of the Blue Ridge, form the county's southern border.

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.

The northwestern section of the county contains the Brushy Mountains, a deeply eroded spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains far to the west.

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.

Hibriten Mountain, located within the city limits of Lenoir, the county's largest city, marks the western end of the Brushy Mountain range.

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

A seat of justice for the county was laid out in 1846 near the center of the county on Brushy Creek and named Houston for the first president of the Texas Republic.

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.

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.

While in Nicholas County, Boone was supposed to have lived on the Brushy Fork of Hinkston Creek near current Millersburg in a cabin owned by his son Daniel Morgan Boone.

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 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 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.

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

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

* Facts, Fiction, Pro's and Con's of Brushy Bill Roberts