Hello, my name is Marcelle Brothers, I'm the writer and webmistress of the  About Billy the Kid website, as well as a co-founder of the Billy the Kid Historic Preservation Society and member of WOLA. I've also been involved with the Billy the Kid Outlaw Gang Organization and wrote a detailed Billy the Kid biography for their website. I've also written about Billy the Kid for the Outlaw Gazette and the Oklahoma Chief to Chief (a law enforcement publication). I was a volunteer docent at the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage and wrote a Billy the Kid mini-series biography for their newsletter.  Lastly, I was the researcher and writer for the Discovery Channel's Billy the Kid Unmasked web site, and over the years I've been a consultant/advisor for screenwriters, publicists, webmasters, and even a museum curator in Australia.

I've been a Billy the Kid aficionado for 15 years. I got my first real exposure to Billy the Kid when my friend and I went to see the movie Young Guns in the theater. After seeing the film  I developed an interest in Billy the Kid and began reading any book on him that I could get my hands on. The first was Walter Noble Burns The Sage of Billy the Kid and it snowballed from there. In May of 2000 I finally had the chance to go to New Mexico and visit Billy the Kid's old haunts, and how exciting it was to see the historical sites that I had read about for years!

Billy the Kid is probably the most controversial person in the Old West, and the fact that everyone has a different interpretation on his life (and death) doesn't make research easy.  That's probably why people find him so fascinating.  He can be anything they want him to be - a villain or a hero (or a little of both), or whether he was killed before he was 21 or lived to be an old man.  The facts based on his life are indeed conflicting.  The reader should never read one source of information and take it as the God-honest truth, but instead explore other sources with a open mind and judge for themselves, not just on Billy the Kid, but anything for that matter.  So this is the conclusion about Billy the Kid that I have come to and I would like to share it with you. It's been fun writing this website, so I hope you'll enjoy it and find it informative and helpful in your own research.

Aside from history, my other passion is horses. I'm an owner and trainer of a trick movie horse and together we've done some movie work and performances (to view my horse's web page click here). 
 

 I'd like to thank the following people:

My Dad for persuading me to stop talking about it and do my own web site; Carrie Kosciniak for talking me into seeing Young Guns; Jerry Garden (Gene Autry Museum docent) for inspiring me to be a  writer and helping me edit the material for this site; William Murray, my history buff buddy who also inspired me; Lucas Speer and Don McAlavy, for their helpful information. Dr. Roger McGrath, for lecturing at the Autry Museum Docent Training Program (a nine month course) and fueling my love of history like never before. Last and definitely not least, I want to thank Frederick Nolan for being so helpful and allowing me to use maps from his books.