Come and Join The Billy the Kid Outlaw Gang for their 2008 Billy the Kid/Pat Garrett Days
Annual Membership Meeting and Campout from July 10, 2008 to July 14, 2008.
Last year's BTKOG campout and membership meeting was a huge success and was very special since it was also the Gang's 20th birthday! During the festivities of the 2007 campout several BTKOG members departed from the campground and headed back in time to April 4, 1878 when Buckshot Roberts clashed with 14 members of the Regulators at Blazer's Mill. The Gang took a field trip to the actual site of the Gunfight at Blazer's Mill, which is still owned by the Blazer family.
The trip was made very special due to the fact that Butch Blazer allowed the Gang exclusive and personal access to not only the property, but also to the Blazer family cemetery where Buckshot Roberts and Regulator Captain Richard Brewer are buried side by side.
If you missed out on joining us for this special trip down history's memory lane, then you are in luck, because the Billy the Kid Outlaw Gang is taking another special field trip during this year's 21st annual campout and membership meeting. This year we will be traveling out to the old ghost town of White Oaks, New Mexico, which is a town literally haunted by many old west legends.
Billy the Kid spent many days in an around White Oaks after his involvement in the Lincoln County War. In November of 1880 Billy and his Gang were involved in a brief skirmish with a posse near White Oaks, which resulted in them being trailed to a roadhouse kept by Whiskey Jim Greathouse where they were surrounded and a standoff ensued. During this standoff some 40 miles north of White Oaks, Deputy James Carlyle was killed while trying to negotiate a surrender from Billy and his Gang. Billy the Kid was blamed for the killing, but there is evidence that Carlyle was shot by his own posse members.
Sheriff Pat Garrett was in White Oaks possibly collecting taxes when he first heard the news that Billy the Kid had escaped from the Lincoln County courthouse killing both of his deputies. James Bell, one of the deputies killed during the escape was actually a resident of White Oaks and is buried in the town's famous cemetery along with Susan McSween Barber. This town has alot of history to be experienced and is still largely untouched by time.
The BTKOG will be taking a trip out to White Oaks this year to experience the history first hand. A picnic lunch is optional, but a wonderful time is guaranteed. All who attend will see many historical old buildings in this once bustling mining town and will have the chance to visit the famous "No Scum Allowed Saloon" and take a stroll through the Cedarvale Cemetery to pay their respects to Deputy James Bell and Susan McSween. Please join the Gang in 2008 and join us for a wonderful time. This will be the first time that the Billy the Kid Outlaw Gang has ridden into White Oaks together in approximately 128 years!!!
White Oaks Photo's
