# @charleycrockett on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DT9PpdlDWQW
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/54260195-charleycrockett-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/132515054c.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-01-26T02:22:54.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Charley Crockett (@Charleycrockett) — https://gondola.cc/Charleycrockett

## Caption

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

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