A California company says it has authenticated and is selling one of the “holy grails of Western Americana” only the second confirmed image of the notorious bandit Billy the Kid.
The 4-by-5-inch photograph was bought for $2 in 2010 at an antique shop by Randy Guijarro of Freemont, California.
According to Kagin’s Inc., a firm specializing in Western Americana and rare coins, the photograph shows Billy the Kid and members of the Lincoln County Regulators gang “playing a leisurely game of croquet alongside friends, family and lovers in the late summer of 1878.”
