Article: Jessie Evans' story.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

The August 2009 feature "The Search for Jessie Evans," by David Turk and Rick Parker, is the well-worn mixture of what little is known about the man and a series of conjectures (I am beginning to loathe the use of the word "likely" in such contexts), which together might be defined as rehashed rehash. The Texas Ranger photograph [reprinted on P. 8] purportedly featuring Billy the Kid also features a rifle [1884 Colt Lightning] that was not manufactured until after the Kid's death, the "Pecos" photograph is very old hat indeed, and the biographical propositions just do not work. The spelling "Jessie" was first propagated by Phillip Rasch in the 1960s, predicated on a ...

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