Several attempts to compare Brushy’s face to the tintype have been done with varying conclusions reached.  But here you see the first and only comparison of the full body stature and physique of Billy vs. Brushy.  There’s nothing complicated here but I believe it is very compelling.  The shoulder width and shape is the same.  The arm length is the same. The size of the face and head is the same.  The size of the feet are the same. The girth is the same. There is absolutely nothing here to suggest these two men are not one and the same and everything to suggest they are.  Ask yourself, what are the odds that an old man who claims to be Billy would happen to have such a virtually identical overall stature.

The copy of the tintype used in the above comparison has been flipped left to right because the original was a horizontally reversed image, like you see when you look into a mirror.  When Brushy died in 1950 it was not common knowledge that the tintype photo was reversed.  Consequently most people thought the photo showed Billy holding his rifle with his right hand and wearing his pistol on the left side.  Even years after Brushy’s death it was generally not known about the reversed image as attested to by the release of the Paul Newman movie “Left Handed Gun” in 1958.  It wasn’t until much later that most people knew.  Yet by 1950 Brushy had stood for at least two photos where he mimicked the pose he had struck all those years before.  And he got it right!  How would he have known the correct pose when most of his contemporaries did not.