"Anything for Billy"

“Anything for Billy” is a historical fiction book about ‘Billy the Kid’ or Henry McCarty. The story is mostly told by an old man by the name of Ben Sippy. Mr. Sippy lived in New York with his wife and nine children. One day while he was sending his butler out to buy dime novels he [the butler] just fell over dead. From then on Mr. Sippy decided he was going to move out west and write his own dime novels. He became one of the most popular novelists in the US after that. When he first met Billy he thought for sure he was going to be killed because he had a mule and Billy had well, nothing. But sure enough they started talking and Billy decided to take Mr. Sippy along on all his adventures from then on. First of all, they ended up in Greasy Corners, a small bar in the middle of nowhere pretty much. In Greasy Corners Mr. Sippy met a few other cowboys and they stayed for a few days. Then came word that Will Isinglass, the owner of almost all the land in Texas a...