why was billy the kid romanticized

•  The newspapers and cheap books wrote exciting stories of his crimes,
• • Powerless people, such as ethnic minorities, poor people and small farmers liked how he stood up to the big businessmen.
• • Most of his violent acts were while he was a hired gun in fighting between unpopular cattle barons
• • People didn't like the justice system as it was too weak to deal with Billy the kid. Even Garrett said after Billy escaped "1 knew now that I would have to kill the Kid