Billy the Kid

<p>In this never-never land, the superhero is the gun slinger, the man who can draw fastest and shoot straightest.</p>

<p><span class="deck">The legend of the most notorious of all outlaws belongs to the whole world now. But, to find the grinning teenager who gave rise to it, you must visit the New Mexico landscape where he lived his short life.</span></p>

<p>Interest in the outlaw has grown recently with the discovery of the first authenticated photographs of Henry McCarty, who died in 1881 at the age of 21 after a short, notorious life of gambling and gunfights.</p>