Author, Gale Cooper's, book, The Billy the Kid's Bad Bucks Hoax: Faking Billy Bonney as a Brockway Gang Counterfeiter, debunks that hoax as well as the hoaxes that led up to it: the Billy the Kid imposter hoaxes of "Brushy Bill" Roberts and John Miller; and the "forensic DNA" hoax of the "Billy the Kid Case." Provided for contrast is the real history of Billy Bonney aka Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War freedom fight against the Santa Fe Ring, and author Cooper's crusade, by exposé books and open records litigation, to protect that history from profiteering charlatans.