Perhaps our shortcomings; Billy the Kid / part 1/draft 1

Perhaps Our Shortcomings; Billy the Kid /part 1/draft 1

fiction
edward w pritchard

We study the past to help us understand ourselves. Perhaps the shortcomings of others long dead can help us to find our path in an indifferent world.

No person from the past is all bad. Proper historical writing about the past requires us to dig to find anecdotes and reports that reveal the positive as well as the negative character attributes of those long gone and forgotten.

Who is without sin spiritually and who is properly au fait to examine and judge another?  Be they long dead or merely forgotten.

Our lives as humans must have a spiritual component and the spirituality must hinge on the revelation that we live, suffer and then are gone.

Study and write History to help us to now understand ourselves and those we share our Time with.

Billy the Kid was born in New York City and died in near fort Sumner New Mexico. No creditable records exist concerning his Mother's birthing experience with him, no records exist concerning the family journey from New York City to Indianapolis and eventually to the Old West, and we know precious little concerning Henry McCarty alias William Bonney's beliefs and prejudices concerning Manifest Destiny, the Civil War and slavery, Native Americans and the relentless push of Progress and civilization, or the Kid's preferences in when it came to women.

Who was the Kid and why do people still revisit his life?
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