{"id":6894,"date":"2015-10-16T12:16:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T19:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6894"},"modified":"2015-10-17T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T19:20:09","slug":"billy-the-kid-for-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/16\/billy-the-kid-for-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy The Kid Captured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/11930197\/Billy-the-Kid-photo-bought-for-2-could-be-sold-for-5-million.html?WT.mc_id=e_DM55280&amp;WT.tsrc=email&amp;etype=Edi_Wor_New&amp;utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=Edi_Wor_New_2015_10_14&amp;utm_campaign=DM55280\" target=\"_blank\">from The Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Billy the Kid photo bought for $2 could be sold for $5 million<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a title=\"Barney Henderson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/journalists\/barney-henderson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Barney Henderson<\/a>,\u00a0New York<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/03471\/Billy-the-Kid-phot_3471912b.jpg\" alt=\"The photograph of Billy the Kid whch was purchased for $2 at a Fresno junk shop in 2010, could sell for millions at auction.\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em><span class=\"caption\">The photograph of Billy the Kid whch was purchased for $2 at a Fresno junk shop in 2010, could sell for millions at auction.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">Photo: Kagin&#8217;s<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Billy the Kid, the Wild West gunslinger, is usually associated with a Colt single action 44, not the genteel English elegance of a varnished oak croquet mallet.<\/p>\n<p>However an extremely rare photograph of the legendary outlaw leaning on a croquet mallet has emerged \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/8599619\/Billy-the-Kid-photograph-sells-for-1.4-million.html\" target=\"_blank\">only the second known photo of &#8220;The Kid&#8221;<\/a>, whose real name is Henry McCarty, thought to exist.<\/p>\n<p>The photo shows McCarty playing croquet with his gang of Lincoln County Regulators in late summer 1878.<\/p>\n<p>It was bought by collector Randy Guijarro for $2 from a Californian junk shop in 2010 and will now be sold by Kagin\u2019s auctioneers for an estimated $5 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we first saw the photograph, we were understandably sceptical \u2014 an original Billy the Kid photo is the holy grail of Western Americana,\u201d said Kagin\u2019s David McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/11930197\/Billy-the-Kid-photo-bought-for-2-could-be-sold-for-5-million.html?WT.mc_id=e_DM55280&amp;WT.tsrc=email&amp;etype=Edi_Wor_New&amp;utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=Edi_Wor_New_2015_10_14&amp;utm_campaign=DM55280\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Telegraph Billy the Kid photo bought for $2 could be sold for $5 million By\u00a0Barney Henderson,\u00a0New York The photograph of Billy the Kid whch was purchased for $2 at a Fresno junk shop in 2010, could sell for millions at auction.\u00a0Photo: Kagin&#8217;s Billy the Kid, the Wild West gunslinger, is usually associated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}