A Lawless Breed: John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West
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John Wesley Hardin! His name spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted 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; some credited him with killing forty or more. After sixteen years in Huntsville prison he was pardon…
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Date:
June 15, 2013
Creator:
Parsons, Chuck & Brown, Norman Wayne
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