billy the kid / peter maxwell house. - HOME-

the fort sumner property

[@glengrieve544]

A great video thanks for the upload watching from Melbourne Australia

[@Freedom-xh2hc]

I came across your video watching videos on Billy the Kid. Congratulations on your new house and the amazing history it comes with. Very interesting. Thank you😊

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

Thank you I have learned an old story From a couple old timers here that Billy the Kid was held up and surrounded by Indians Here when it was just a ranch hand shack . They had them surrounded and was waiting them out to run them out of water And Billy had crawled out in the middle of the night On his belly up the Creek and filled the canteens Across the highway from me where Sunnyside Spring is.

[@usmcmustang2972]

@@runzwithwulvz6592 That's a hilarious story ... because Ft Sumner was established before BTK was ever come to the area... and there is no history of any Indians upsetting or killing our up rising in the area. In fact, Ft Sumner was the holding area for mass amounts of Indians forced off their land by the US government. Are you interested in buying a bridge over the San Francisco harbor? I would sell it to you really cheap... I hear Geronimo once jumped off of it ... thus giving birth to the term GERONIMO !!!! 😄😆😅😂

[@KevinWhite-zb5os]

@@runzwithwulvz6592 Cool! I'll echo the congratulations. I've been following BTK history for some time. 🙂

[@mariemorgan7759]

What a cute Casita! Some Mexican/Southwestern style furniture and decorations and the place will look fabulous! Good luck with your new place!

[@luckylokomotiongarcias6152]

Billy the KID LEGEND that lives on

[@user-hq7zj9yj3l]

Maybe billy used to bang Paulita there, while ol Pete sat seething, plotting his revenge for corrupting his baby sister. Lol. Nice place, i love it.

[@johnstanley9719]

Hate to burst your bubble....but that's not the Peter Maxwell house. That house is no longer in existence.

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

I am fully aware that It is not THE Maxwell house. It was a ranch hand shack originally. that was owned by the Maxwells that sits on what was their Land Hate to burst your bubble lol. If you want to learn some more history this property also was once a stagecoach stop on the Good night loving trail. When I 1st moved here to Fort Sumner 2 years ago I did not know much about the history. After being here and working at the Billy the Kid museum for a year I've learned a lot. The sweet family have taught me a lot about the history of this area and straighten me out on a couple of things I was missed led on.

[@johnstanley9719]

@@runzwithwulvz6592 didn't mean to ruffle your feathers. I just knew that wasn't Peter Maxwells home were BTK supposedly died in. So in regards to that...I think that you are a very lucky person to own a piece of American history. I hope that someday when you and your family are done with the updates and remodeling that you will shoot another video of the before and after of your restoration project. Have a blessed day

[@knightofbrokenglass9237]

@@johnstanley9719 it was washed away by a river - Chino Silva. th-cam.com/video/aiJGX-_LrEQ/w-d-xo.html

[@stevenblack1903]

I'd be using a medal detector out there for sure. If I'm not mistaken there was a picture of Billy and the Regulators on the Maxwell homestead that sold for four or five million dollars recently.

[@KevinWhite-zb5os]

You know, of all the crimes committed in or near Fort Sumner in the past? The worst is not filming in landscape. 😝😁

[@jacquelineflower9077]

What a this got to do with Billy the kid and maxwell

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

This property was once owned by the maxwell family. The house has been added onto over the years. Rock,stucko,timber. But was originally a line shack for ranch hands of Peter maxwell. William H. Bonney is said to have stayed in the original rock dirt floored shack. I have heard several stories , but they are exactly that stories.

[@williamcrowder2226]

I think you got fleeced. I dont see the Pecos River

[@knightofbrokenglass9237]

rivers move all the time.- where do you live - in a city?

[@kathyfitch5405]

Congratulations!!

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

Thank you Kathy. Can't wait for you guys to come visit.

[@rosemoreno2817]

Better get you a telescope if you don't have one because the veiws from that balcony at night are going to be amazing!!!

[@mikenino1559]

Did Billy the kid use those washing machines pretty Kool he had it made nice House.

[@alexsegurasr3028]

Touches is minnows in Spanish could be warch out

[@worldsend142]

Any creepy stuff happen? Lots of action there figured maybe there might be some lingering spirits, if that’s a thing lol

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

Nothing yet......

[@ValMartinIreland]

I don't think there was any action in this place, it does show the sort of land they were fighting over. There is more green grass on one Irish front lawn than on all of new Mexico.

[@knightofbrokenglass9237]

I can just see Kris Kristoferson and the crew shooting chickens as James Coburn rides up...

[@justaputzfrompa]

Did you keep the tree painting? Pretty cool.

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

Absolutely.

[@jimmiethomas7194]

My 3rd great grandmother was Odilia Maxwell and her husbands name was Manuel Aubreu. This property has nothing to do with the Maxwells or Abreus

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

If that is true then you would know that this property Was owned by the Maxwell family. not the house the house was Built-in the thirties before that it was just A-line shack dirt floored ranch hand shack. The old timers that I am buying this house from have a giant painting of Peter Maxwell , That was painted by a local woman that comes with the house. this house and property have massive amounts of history and character to It. I work at the Billy the Kid museum here in Fort Sumner. There are artifacts that were found around this property, That are displayed in the museum. I have no idea if Billy ever set foot here, Chances are he did. I just call it the Billy the Kid House because I Want to I also call it the Fort. These videos were created for my family to follow us on our journey, To new Mexico. It's not for haters who think they know everything.

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

Also it is listed in the records to have been owned by the Maxwell's.

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

Then you should also know that this area was called Sunnyside before merging with Fort Sumner. When lucien came here and bought the old Fort this part Sunnyside is where most of the family Settled. P.S I visit your family's grave site often. It's about 30 paces from Billy's.

[@vincentaguilar1865]

My wife's grandma is Stella Aubrue Odilia Maxwell was her mom

[@joenieto5888]

Im sorry but i am not sure that i heard you correctly when you said the name of the creek, if you had said Truchas that means trouts and i know as i am Spanish, if you had said something i didnt quite catch it.

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

I do not know Spanish. I was just told By an old timer here that meant watch out Creek(truchas). I was assuming because of rattlesnakes. Maybe just a nick name lol. Thanks for correcting me.

[@joenieto5888]

@@runzwithwulvz6592 Sorry Bro but no Truchas meand trouts which if the creek has loads of water or had and there is or were fish in it then there is your reason for the name. I am from Spain and a Billy the kid fan, Totally love your house and to think about the history on your land makes me feel very envious, congrats on such an awesome purchase.

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

@@joenieto5888 Thank you we love it here. I have recently been working at the Billy the Kid museum here in Fort Sumner also. I feel blessed. And yes the Creek does get water in it only when a thunderstorm comes through and then it dries backup

[@alexispenaran639]

@JOE NIETO well joe from Spain I’m Mexican and Mexico is closer to New Mexico and not spain but truchas and Mexico stands for something more different than trout lmao

[@rosemoreno2817]

​@@joenieto5888thruchas is a Mexican slang word for becareful/watch out my older uncles and cousins all used to say that to us when we were little I'm from Albuquerque NM!!!

[@folksysanborski2116]

Where is that at, would love to visit

[@melissabryan2348]

BULLSHIT!
Billy was Married with 4 children!
Billy would Never have done anything with Paulita!
She was Besties with Billy’s Wife!
Quit with the Paulita lies!

[@BlackAnvil47]

Wasn't this the house that was caving in last year, gre

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

It had a roof leak a while back, That was repaired. No signs of caving in lol. Actually the one thing that It has going for it is it's pretty damn sturdy. Although it is a old house and no one's taking care of The place in years. I have been going through upgrading and repairing to make sure that this place Stays here in Fort Sumner for many years to come.

[@usmcmustang2972]

Click bait ... and no ... that place has nothing to do with BTK ....

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

This property was owned by Peter Maxwell. There are artifacts in the museum from Billy Found near this property. Billy worked for Peter Maxwell, Billy was all over this town Fort Sumner. I don't know where you get your information. But why don't you try not being an asshole.

[@ryanpester552]

Yep this has nothing to do with Billy the Kid. Saying this property is Maxwell's is like me driving to Mosquero NM in some random locations with a house on site saying this was owned by Pete Maxwell because he owned all this land. Here's a little spoil alert. Not everything in that museum in Ft Sumner that is said to be BTKs or otherwise ever came from BTK.

[@usmcmustang2972]

@@runzwithwulvz6592 I know you deleted my first reply. But as I said. Pete Maxwell owned half of what we now know as New Mexici and half of west Texas, on a single land grant, which was revoked just a few years after his death. All of the real estate brokers in those areas now sell properties based on that. To anyone they can hoodwink.

[@williamcrowder2226]

@@usmcmustang2972 That is a fact. Also Colorado. Land was not yet subdivided and few had lines of credit. This property was probably just lease-on for ranchers from all over who operated under the Maxwell name. He never set foot on this site. He lived on the Pecos.
He owned 1,714,765 acres and is known as the Maxwell Land Grant. 20% of the people in NM with a mortgage have the same claim as living on Pete Maxwells old place.

[@acmag5730]

So was Billy the Kid killed in this house?

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

No. He was shot and killed in the maxwell house here in Fort Sumner. This house originally was a dirt floored ranch hand shack owned by the Maxwell's that was used for men that worked for him.

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

That original shack is preserved in the walls of the downstairs living room which was the original shack. You can see the original front door from one of the closets, they just built right around it

[@acmag5730]

So interesting. I just started following this story and came across your video. Thanks for sharing. Such great history:)

[@joaquinhernandez9413]

You don't explain much

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

At the time of this video I just got here and didn't know much . what do you want to know?

[@runzwithwulvz6592]

The EARTH is ROUND. ALIENS EXIST. come on with the 20 questions.......tick tock

[@sharoncarrier18]

Not finishing this false info video.