Did Booth Find a Hiding Place in Texas?

On Apr. 14, 1865, five days after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, a 26 year old member of the “first family of the American stage” murdered Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.

The epic manhunt for John Wilkes Booth ended 12 days later on a Virginia farm. A Union soldier under strict orders to take the most wanted man in American history alive fired the fatal shot that forever silenced the first presidential assassin.

That, in a nutshell, is the official story. But what if it’s not true? Is it possible that John Wilkes Booth lived to see the twentieth century and even spent part of his extended exile in Texas?