The Lincoln County War’s aftermath was the victorious Ring’s re-writing of history and concealing or expurgating evidence to achieve the ultimate goal of organized crime: invisibility. So that period was the making of American monsters. A monster was the Santa Fe Ring itself. A monster was its Territorial boss, Thomas Benton Catron. And a “monster” was their creation, “Billy the Kid”: the mythological outlaw, rustler, counterfeiter, gang leader and senseless serial killer of a man for each of his twenty-one years. But the real Billy Bonney, the unrelenting freedom fighter against their corrupt might, was the one person who could have broken the Santa Fe Ring. #sagebrushtrilogy #thesantaferingvsbillythekid