In O. Henry's original story, the Cisco Kid was a 25-year-old desperado living in the Texas–Mexico border country. His real name was possibly Goodall ("This hombre they call the Kid—Goodall is his name, ain't it?"); no first name is given in the story. Unlike in later adaptations, He killed for fun and was responsible for the deaths of at least eighteen people.

The Kid also has a mixed-ancestry girlfriend, Tonia Perez, who both fears and loves him, but after meeting Texas Ranger Lieutenant Sandridge, Tonia falls in love with him instead. The Ranger was on the trail to catch the Cisco Kid, but the Kid outsmarted him and tricked Sandridge into killing his girlfriend, Tonia, instead.

In the comics published by Baily, The Cisco Kid was a wandering Robin Hood-like character traveling the American southwest and northern Mexico in the 1870s and 1880s. He is assisted by Pancho his older and overweight sidekick, Pancho was introduced in ''The Cisco Kid Returns'' (1945).
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*[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Heart_of_the_West/The_Caballero%27s_Way The Caballero's Way] (Everybody's Magazine, v17, 1907)

*The Caballero's Way (1914) (lost)
*The Border Terror (1919) (lost)
*In Old Arizona (1928)

* The Arizona Kid (1930): Chico Cabrillo/The Arizona Kid is a Mexican Robin Hood, see notes.

* Cisco Kid Comics #1
* Four Color #292
* The Cisco Kid #2-41

* The Dell series was an adaptation of the television series based on the character created by O. Henry. The first issue was Four Color Comics #292.
* In 1928, Fox Film Corporation released ''In Old Arizona'', starring Warner Baxter as the Cisco Kid. In 1930, due to copyright issues, the studio released ''The Arizona Kid'', with Baxter playing Chico Cabrillo/The Arizona Kid, a character similar to the Cisco Kid. In 1931, Fox released ''The Cisco Kid'', with Baxter reprising his role as the Cisco Kid. Baxter also portrayed Cisco in ''The Stolen Jools'' (1931) and ''The Return of the Cisco Kid'' (1939).
* Cisco Kid, originally created by O. Henry in 1907 as a murderous outlaw, gradually evolved into a heroic Mexican caballero in the style of Robin Hood, influenced by characters like Zorro and Joaquin Murrieta. Warner Baxter, who played Cisco Kid, also portrayed Murrieta in ''The Robin Hood of El Dorado'' (1936).
* Cisco is Portuguese in the film ''In Old Arizona.''
* "Cisco" and "Pancho" are both nicknames given to men whose Spanish name is Francisco, which in English is "Francis", Chico is a nickname for Francisco in both Spanish and Portuguese.

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cisco_Kid Wikipedia]
*[https://www.comics.org/feature/7412/ GCD]
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/cisco-kid/4005-15216/ Comic Vine]
*[https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=2444 Comic Book Plus]
*[https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=35374 Digital Comics Museum]
*[http://jessnevins.com/encyclopedia/ciscokid.html Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes]
* [https://literature.fandom.com/wiki/The_Caballero%27s_Way Literature Wiki]

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