One of the lesser aspects of Howard Hughes' notorious 1943 THE OUTLAW is its status as a crossover, spinning a fictional story about the encounter of two western legends, Billy the Kid and Doc Holiday. In real history the two men were contemporaries but there's no record that they ever met, much less quarreled over a horse and a woman (in that same order of importance.) A fictional version of Sheriff Pat Garrett appears in the movie as well, but I consider him ancillary to the legend of William Bonney.
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