El bandido adolescente

{{short description|1965 novel written by Ramón J. Sender}}

{{Infobox book

| name = El bandido adolescente

| author = Ramón J. Sender

| image = File:El bandido adolescente.jpg

| caption = First edition

| pub_date = 1965

| publisher = Editorial Destino

| pages = 280

| language = Spanish

| subject = Billy the Kid

| genre = Western novel

| isbn = 9788423336869

}}

El bandido adolescente (The teenage bandit) is a 1965 novel written by Ramón J. Sender.{{cite book |url=https://www.planetadelibros.com/libro-el-bandido-adolescente/1062 |title=El bandido adolescente |access-date=27 January 2019 |work=Planeta de Libros |language=es}} He wrote it during a tour in New Mexico.{{cite news |url=https://www.larazon.es/historico/1862-billy-el-nino-oeste-infernal-QLLA_RAZON_465838 |title=Billy el Niño Oeste infernal |date=14 June 2012 |access-date=27 January 2019 |newspaper=La Razón |language=es |archive-date=28 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128082900/https://www.larazon.es/historico/1862-billy-el-nino-oeste-infernal-QLLA_RAZON_465838 |url-status=dead }}

It is about the history of the gunfighter Billy the Kid.{{cite web |url=http://www.editorialcontrasena.es/EL-BANDIDO-ADOLESCENTE-book.html |title=El bandido adolescente |access-date=27 January 2019 |work=Editorial Contraseña |language=es}} In this novel, Ramón J. Sender finds in Billy the Kid a Spanish kinship.{{cite news |url=https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/ocio_cultura/2014/08/14/billy_nino_segun_sender_304743_1361024.html |title=Billy el Niño, según Sender |first=Antón |last=Castro |date=14 August 2010 |access-date=27 January 2019 |newspaper=Heraldo de Aragón |language=es |publisher=Henneo}} He visited Mexico and there someone showed him the purported skull of Billy the Kid.{{cite news |url=https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/sociedad/2017/11/17/la-inedita-foto-que-billy-nino-verdugo-paul-garrett-posan-juntos-1208637-310.html |title=¿Por qué posaron juntos Billy el Niño y su verdugo, Paul Garrett? |date=17 November 2017 |access-date=27 January 2019 |newspaper=Heraldo de Aragón |language=es |publisher=Henneo}}