[8] It is also claimed he was a private in Company D., Frontier Battalion, of Captain Dan W. Roberts,[3][4][9] but according to Bill Reynolds he was Joseph William Bell, who was born on 17 May 1849 in Ohio.
They travelled northwest across Staked Plains and arrived on 5 July 1879 at Tascosa, a small settlement in the Texas Panhandle.
[12] There were a strike twenty-four miles south of Santa Fe, in Carbonateville, near present-day Cerrillos, New Mexico, and when they arrived there, they were disbanded.
[15][16] On the evening of 22 November 1880 someone tried to steal his horses, and the next day he rode with a posse headed by Deputy Sheriff Will Hudgens to Blake's sawmill, gang's camp, near town, but it was deserted.
[25] On 15 December 1881 Pat Garrett and his pose headed to Puerto de Luna in pursuit of Billy the Kid hideout.
[19] Subsequently, Billy the Kid was sentenced to hang for the murder of Sheriff William Brady at Old Mesilla, and he was brought back to Lincoln.