The courtroom of the Old West is open — and our first witness is Billy the Kid.

In the debut of Dark Dialogue: Gallows and Gunfights, we strip away the dime-novel myths to uncover how Henry McCarty — a bright, polite boy from the slums of New York — became William H. Bonney, the young Regulator at the center of the Lincoln County War.

This episode follows his journey from crowded tenements in Manhattan to the rough mining town of Silver City, where hardship, loss, and survival forged the boy who would one day be called an outlaw. You’ll meet the Regulators as they first step onto the stage — Dick Brewer, Charlie Bowdre, Frank McNab, and Doc Scurlock — men caught between law and lawlessness, loyalty and bloodshed.

This isn’t Hollywood’s West. It’s the messy, brutal truth: where lawmen carried warrants one day and rifles the next, and justice was often written in smoke and gunpowder.

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Because in this courtroom of history, you decide: outlaw or lawman?