1. Billy Claiborne was an American outlaw, cowboy, drover, miner, and gunfighter in the American Old West.
21 Facts About Billy Claiborne
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Billy Claiborne killed James Hickey in a confrontation in a saloon, but it was ruled self-defense.
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Billy Claiborne was present at the beginning of the Gunfight at the OK.
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On October 1,1881, Billy Claiborne got into an argument with James Hickey in the Queen's Saloon in Charleston.
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Billy Claiborne turned to walk out at the same time this young fellow they called The Kid was coming into the saloon.
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Billy Claiborne shot Hickey in the cheek below his left eye, killing him instantly.
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Hickey was not well-liked and when a jury was finally convened, Billy Claiborne was found not guilty and set free.
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In 1881, after William "Billy the Kid" Bonney was killed, Claiborne demanded that others call him "Billy the Kid".
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Billy Claiborne reportedly killed one to three men who refused.
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Billy Claiborne became friends with Ike and Billy Clanton, and with Tom and Frank McLaury.
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Billy Claiborne told them about their brothers' beatings at the hands of the Earp brothers within the previous two hours.
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Angrily, Frank said he would not drink, and he and Billy Claiborne left the saloon immediately to seek Tom and Ike.
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Billy Claiborne left the Cowboys and went to the lawmen, though he looked nervously backward several times.
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Billy Claiborne went to Globe and got a job in the mines.
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Leslie asked Billy Claiborne to leave, but Billy Claiborne continued his foul and abusive speech.
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Billy Claiborne came back again and began using exceedingly abusive language, when I took him by the collar of his coat and led him away, telling him not to get mad, that it was for his own good, that if he acted in that manner he was liable to get in trouble.
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Billy Claiborne pushed away from me, using very hard language, and as he started away from me, shook a finger at me and said, "That's all right, Leslie, I'll get even on you," and went out of the saloon.
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The Cochise County, Arizona Coroners Report for Billy Claiborne is number 39 for the year 1882.
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William Floyd Billy Claiborne married Hattie Barnton on 27 January 1887 in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
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Billy Claiborne later appeared on the 1910 Census as a widower with his children.
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Since William Floyd Claiborne of Yazoo County, Mississippi, was still alive and still living in Yazoo five years after Billy Claiborne died, it is not possible for Billy to be William Floyd.