| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 490 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits |
| Series |
Number 14 in the A.C. Greene series |
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A.C. Greene series ; 14.
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| Contents |
First blood -- Gunfire in Hill County -- Mexico or Kansas? -- Shedding blood in Kansas -- The Texas State Police -- Capture and escape -- The end of Jack Helm -- Killing intensifies -- A "bully from Canada" -- Fighting Waller's Texas Rangers -- Leaving the Lone Star State -- Troubles in Florida -- "Texas, by God!" -- Hardin on trial -- Huntsville and punishment -- Dreams of a future -- Seeing Jane again -- A full pardon -- Attorney at law, J.W. Hardin -- Troubles in Pecos -- Troubles in El Paso -- "I'll meet you smoking" -- The youngest brother -- End of the gunfighters |
| Summary |
John Wesley Hardin! His name spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive - a fugitive with a $4000 reward on his head. A Texas Ranger wrote that he killed men just to see them kick. Hardin began his killing career in the late 1860s and remained a wanted man until his capture in 1877 by Texas Rangers and Florida law officials. He certainly killed twenty men, though some credited him with killing forty or more. After sixteen years in Huntsville Prison, he was pardoned by Governor Hogg. For a short while, he avoided trouble and roamed westward, eventually establishing a home of sorts in wild and woolly El Paso as an attorney. He became embroiled in the dark side of that city and eventually lost his final gunfight to El Paso Constable John Selman. Hardin was forty-two years old. Besides his reputation as the deadliest man with a six-gun, he left an autobiography in which he detailed many of the troubles of his life. In this book, the authors have meticulously examined his claims against available records to determine how much of his life story is true, and how much was only a half truth or complete lie |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hardin, John Wesley, 1853-1895.
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| SUBJECT |
Hardin, John Wesley, 1853-1895 fast |
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Outlaws -- Texas -- Biography
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Texas
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Violence -- Texas -- History -- 19th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Outlaws
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Violence
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| SUBJECT |
Texas -- History -- 1846-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134269
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Texas
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Norman Wayne
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| ISBN |
9781574415155 |
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1574415158 |
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