I was thrilled when Don Sweet agreed to give us a guided tour of the museum portion dedicated to Billy the Kid. In the next segment, I will take us through the rest of this very large museum complex.

This is nothing short of amazing. Such stunning pieces of history. I'd love to visit and see it all....if only.

This is so good. My granddad Benjamin Franklin Wood was also born in 1859 and was friends with Billy in Ft Sumter. Granddad ran a barber shop there but also in his small business you could get a tooth pulled and or a bowl of soup. We heard many a story of the short man Billy.

This was sweet! I hope he is teaching or writing down all that knowledge so we don’t lose it.

wow this guy is amazing he knows everything and also loves talking about it.

Jesus silva is my great great grandfather. Awesome articles about him online.

Thanks for sharing! I came to this museum in 2013 with my dad and it was fantastic! I went back in 2017/2018 and it was closed. So I’m glad to see it’s back up and running. This place is a treasure.

What a thrill, a true treat to see all this fantastic history. The caretaker is a true gem! God bless you all. I pray you have some youngsters wanted to learn all your knowledge an feel "Try" your shoes!

Thank you sir it's very fascinating, and what a older gentleman, this and he is just great !🙂 from Tulsa Oklahoma with love ❤.

Oh my...from UK ..I loved the old West Cowboys, I was looking into Billy the Kid, this came up, looked in to the man claiming to be Billy the Kid, in the moment this wonderful old chap said, he turned out to be 20 years younger...I believe this old Gent, he knows!! great,

Absolutely enjoy this tour 💙🙏

I loved seeing this...so much history. ❤️

This is simply amazing. Thank you

Amazing! 🇺🇸 Did not know this Museum existed! What a treasure of History. This Old Guy is a National Treasure. Thank God this Video was done. So much Historical information flowing from this Man. Hope I can Visit this some Day🇺🇸

How awesome is that! A personal tour! Great information

Very cool video of our past history from the old west and Billy the Kid and others which is way better than anything on tv. for sure !!! Thanks sir !!!

Thank you so much for sharing this tour with us 👍🏻

He kept moving on everytime you asked a question😂😂😂. Great video👍

Stopped on my way back from Las Vegas. In April of 2022 . Spent about 2-3 hours there. Very nice people didn’t rush you out. So much history there and the grave yard just down the way. Good time. Great little town of history

Preservation of History.

Fascinating ❤️

Lol, he reminds me of my great grandpa you have to speak a little louder for him to hear you. My great grandpa was kinda hard hearing n if you didn't speak louder enough his mind would hear something completely different than what you asked. Hes got some cool stuff

That is really cool.Thank you for sharing

Who could give this a thumbs down?!! Smh

Very informative history on Billy the Kid.

That was such a great video actually getting to talk to Don Sweet! Thanks for a great video

Terrific!

Thanks for sharing this .A lot of history and pictures of William Bonnie that I've never seen . 🤠

Love seeing all the Maxwell memorabilia!! They’re ancestors of mine.

Excellent!

Interesting!! I was there when I was kid in 1973 an then in 2013. It took at least two hours to look through it...

I just walked out of there and got a really cool postcard and so many pictureS

Visited there in 2016 ,Steve and Rhonda Redcliffe, Australia.

I really hope that someday that me and the misses get to come and see your Museum it looks really nice and thank you for the video😊👍

Gotta love western/ southern humor

This is Amazing " 100% Thank you, Thank you, Thank you ! Im Blown away by this " So much History , Yet no one Speaks of It ... Many Blessings From England " ... I will come back to the US and come to see the Museum Thank You Don Sweet.. Also Dusty Too" haha...Truly Amazing Thank you Guys ..

Have you been to Lincoln NM at the county courthouse where Billy made his final escape it is now a sort of museum to walk through such a cool place and piece of history still standing i love NM so much historic towns and buildings to visit great video i love this type of content!!!👍

Tks for sharing, very interesting

Lawrence Murphy is my great great grandfather. I learned this about 8-10 years ago.

I enjoyed the history lesson

I love in Alamogordo NM not far from Lincoln and Capitan, Mescalero, Ruidoso, etc. Tons of great American history around here. New Mexico is the best

Id love to visit the billy the kid museum im a big fan

Good tour 👍

I remember seeing this museum on the highway on the way over to the grave site that has another museum next to it and historic Fort Sumter nearby. I went on a slow day, there was no other tourist around. The museum at the site has the tin photo of Billy the Kid.

Very wise fella! I'd love to go here. I'd love to purchase the Wanted Poster!

Find William Tunstills 4-Hour interview with Ola Eberhard!! She was related and around Jesse and Billy. Brushy was Billy.

Great video!

Wow I was there today!! Spoke to this sweet old man, said he's been married 69 years now!!!😜😱 Dear Lord I told my husband hope I don't live that long lol

why...would they not take a picture of the kid's death...they took a picture of EVERY OTHER outlaw there was.. the officers that killed them was PROUD to say they did it. so they always took a picture... but pat didnt have billys body pictured?? it wasn't billy....

Pop's be cool AF and I be sayin he a good brotha

i believe every thing you said i would love to get some of your info from the part 2

Amazing I love history all the stuff those pictures and guns and the door with the bullet holes the clothing so cool Billy the kid is my favorite outlaw

I been to his cabin in New Mexico

Billy's hair would be handy to DNA match with Brushy Bill Roberts DNA!!

Cool video Too bad we didnt get to see the kid's hair. I was waiting for that

24:26 That comic book is Belgian. The characters "billy the kid" and "the daltons" appear frequently in the Lucky Luke comic book series

He says “turns out Brushy was 20 years too young”. That’s a misconception created in 1988, that mistook Him for Ollie P Robert’s, a cousin to the man he claimed to be, William H Roberts. He went by an Alias Ollie L Roberts, and that’s where the confusion came from. Whether he was Billy, who knows but he had 18 different people sight affidavits to knowing brushy in the 18880s and 90s as an adult, working jobs at a time when Ollie P was a child. It’s been completely disproven

great story on the Irish outlaw Henry MC carthy Similar to the Ozzie outlaw Ned Kelly

Major-General Edwin Vose Sumner did NOT die of wounds at Antietam. "Bull" Sumner died of fever at his daughter's home in Syracuse, New York on March 21, 1863. He's buried in Syracuse's Oakwood Cemetery.

Man I remember going there. I love billy the kid to death and seeing all this stuff really blew my mind. Thanks for posting this to give others a chance to see the history and all the stories of not just billy the kid but about Fort Sumner

Does the museum sell the life size picture of Billy that is there? I'd love to buy one!!

I believe we'll find some facts there, but I still don't believe that Pat Garrett killed Billy

Im very interested of all auobut billy the kid. How many peaple lived in newmexico ,santa fe, 1880!? Im from Sweden, so you understand my english.

Eonderful seeing all those 300 hr ikd artifacts(or replicas..because i doubt those cowhide chaps wouldve stood the test of time without modern refrigeration! Lol) all those LONG ARMS my goodness! Regardless of any authenticity to Billy the kid theyre all still quite fascinating to see & VERY valuable(im a bit of an arms buff & have a few pieces of antique weaponry..which I paid a aubstantial amount to own. All of whuch are rifles & shot guns) The old barbers chair!(who the heck would put velet or velour on a barbers chair! How the heck would u get all the hair off the dang thing? Especially without a modern vacuum..which would still be difficult at best! Lol) A lot of money sitting there & even more HISTORY! No matter whom it allegedly belinged to or the place in history..enjoy the fact that u were witness to some of history's most interesting, intriguing times that was spiraling our ancestors into the industrial revelution to het us into a pount in time & technology that we dont have to leave the comfort of our homes to be witness to such fascinating sites!

Obviously most of these items do not have proper provenance or else they'd be worth a ton. Can you imagine how much the gun Billy used to escape the Lincoln County courthouse would be worth? I consider most of these items replicas, but this place is very cool nonetheless. I can't wait to visit.

Billy's real guns,a Colt Thunderer and shotgun are in the Lincoln County museum.

Everybody really needs to hear the story of brushy bill roberts.......you will change your mind.

William Koch should lend the carpenters bench to this museum.

Reversed picture is wrong. Things don’t just show up out of nowhere,and cameras don’t take pictures of things that aren’t there.

Where is this museum I heard him say something about Mesquite is that mesquite Texas?

Is there any pictures of the Mcsween house before the fire?

This museum potentially has the DNA of Billy the Kid.

I heard it closed down and sold / auctioned. Is that true?

Cool museum but hard to get into since you don't really know if the items are the real deal. Kind of hard to verify.

Hey what kinda pocket knives were in that display with his dads pic...?

25:48 What does he mean there’s a loading iron and if you got caught with that you would hang? I can’t see it in the video and I googled it nothing popped up

The first bullet didn't kill Billy

Billy the kid is my dad's brother's wife's uncles nephew

He was a very young outlaw he was only 18 or19 years old

interesting how many stories i heard about dead billy the kid but i think only true was that he survived or pat garret let him go. dont know what to belive anymore but i think dnk from his grave and his mothers grave would clear some things up

Definitely more fun to think Billy wasn’t killed given the events surrounding his death and the reason he was began fighting. I’m not saying he was perfect, though I’m sure the opposing side tried to smear his name with more than he ever did-I just think he was fighting the good fight against the Sante Fe ring. He lost his life because of it, however, I think we are fighting or should be anyway, a much larger and more corrupt ring…

He's got a lot of wrong information. The funeral was closed, and they showed his body out in the open.

If this guy says he has The Kids hair, why won't they use that for d.n.a

I have question did you see billy's Gun is it there

Sumner

Is it true that his real name was Mc Cartney?

Brushy bill Roberts claimed he lost his hat and a revolver as he escaped across the creek north of McSweens burning house during that famous gunfight.......someone should contact netflix, Stan or paramount and do a recorded doco to try to find that revolver.....it would still be in that creek if Roberts is Billy the kid.

Reversing that original is non scientific. Camera don’t take pictures of things not there,and if you reverse the photo the loading gat shows up out of nowhere. The Loading gate is not on left side. Cameras don’t just make stuff up.

I think someone should do research on katherine Billy's mother some say she was born in Ireland and some say she wasn't! I'm sure she has folks in Ireland I wonder if anybody ever went and did research on katherine...

U claim to have billy the kids hair… and u havent tracked down everyone alive related to him who could possibly know some history of say their grandparents who may or may not have been direct descendants or possibly a death cheating billy in his last few years.

I don't think Pat killed the kid that night I am a retired truck driver and I load north of Los Cruesas (might of spelled that wrong) in 2007 and old man had to be about 80 looked like a skeleton with skin pulled over him "I said here I am driving were btk road and supposed to got killed by Pat he laughed and said he never got killed by Pat it wàs a setup and the kid lived in Las Cruces for many years before going on down to old Mexico and later on I was in a souvenir shop in lordsburg NM and the lady had pictures of btk setting with her aunt's in 1920's

lucky luke is from France not Denmark

Billy escaped the scene and lived a long live.

Don Swede is billy the kid

I have a billy the kid paper back book

Where is the actual proof besides him just talking? I have studied The kid and this makes a lot of sense like the movies

weren't we supposed to see Billy the Kid's hair?

Born in NYC

Displays of his parents in a museum? Ppl go to see relics😂

That story about Billy's death is absolutely lies