The real story behind Paulita Maxwell and her relationship with Billy the Kid

(True West) The intense, hot, steamy and illicit romance between 20-year-old Henry “Billy the Kid” McCarty and 16-year-old Paulita Maxwell has been accepted worldwide as fact.
That the notorious outlaw had turned Paulita into a sexual conquest makes for an exciting story. Yet Paulita was never a love interest, much less a lover, of the Kid. Not one shred of evidence supports this story. Continued