Career
Billy the Kid. After the war ended, they became cattle rustlers, forming the Bonney's gang with fellow outlaws Dave Rudabaugh and Charlie Bowdre. O'Folliard, a Texan, was a participant in the Lincoln County War and survived the famous Five-Day Battle in Lincoln during July 1878. He is said to have been wounded by a gunshot to the shoulder while escaping from the McSween residence, which had been set on fire, with Billy and three others.
He was shot in the chest by members Pat Garrett on December 19, 1880, at Fort Sumner, dying approximately 45 minutes later. He was interred at Old Fort Sumner Cemetery in a plot later shared by Bonney and Charlie Bowdre. O'Folliard was portrayed in the film Young Guns II by Balthazar Getty as a 14-year-old "tenderfoot" orphan from Pennsylvania who begs his way into Billy the Kid's gang.
This was inaccurate, as O'Folliard was a Texan, never left the southwest and was in his late teens when he joined the Regulators. O'Folliard also appeared in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), played by screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer, although depicted inaccurately as middle-aged.