Frustrated, "The House" ordered Sheriff William Brady and Deputy William Morton to arrest Tunstall on questionable charges. Tunstall refused to leave his house and was killed. Angered, Billy the Kid formed a posse called the Regulators, and chased down and killed Deputy Morton. Fighting between the Regulators and The House continued throughout 1878, taking 19 lives. <br>When the fighting was over, Billy the Kid took to a life of crime, stealing cattle from the very ranchers he fought to protect. 0n July 14, 1881, new Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett killed Billy the Kid in a gunfight.
However various Billy the Kid was portrayed by numerous [[actor]]s in film and [[television]]. In 1955, Jim Davis' anthology western series, ''[[Stories of the Century]],'' cast Richard Jaeckel (1926-1997) to portray the Kid. Various persons have claimed that Billy the Kid was not the person Garrett killed: one person ("Brushy" Bill Roberts of Hico, Texas) actually claimed to be Billy the Kid (the town has capitalized a bit on his claims, though they were never proven).
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