 The Lincoln County War rages for two years, and Billy the Kid is not only in the thick of the fighting, but he becomes the leader of the regulators, as the Tunstall-Maxween faction of gunmen is called. Some say the Kid kills as many as 21 men, but one-third that number is probably closer to the truth. Nonetheless, he is clearly the war's most deadly fighter. Some of his exploits defy the imagination.