The Tall Man1960

Dean Almond:
I'm a journalist - feature correspondent for the New York Weekly. I'm making a special trip up this way from El Paso.

Billy the Kid:
Well, there ain't nothin' that happens in Lincoln worth writin' about.

Dean Almond:
I'm doing a series - 'Great Bad Men of the West'. Grand opportunity to make a name for myself... good as Ned Buntline, Mark Twain or any of that lot.

Billy the Kid:
Well, there ain't no great bad men in these parts, Mister.

Dean Almond:
Did you ever hear of a young hothead calls himself, "Billy the Kid"?

Billy the Kid:
Yeah, yeah. I almost forgot about him.

Dean Almond:
They say he was jailed for the first time at the tender age of fourteen - imagine that - for killing a mining engineer named Frank Douglas... but he got out of that by pretending to the jailer's daughter that he was in love with her. Imagine a fourteen year old boy!

Billy the Kid:
Don't you believe it.

Dean Almond:
What?

Billy the Kid:
No, that wasn't his first killing.

Dean Almond:
Really?

Billy the Kid:
No, no, not by a long shot - not unless you don't count the Mexicans and Indians.