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John Hardin and His Wives
John Hardin was born 3 January 1826 in Henry County, Kentucky. His parents were Eli Paine Hardin (1796-1876) and Mary Vance (1796-1893). His family moved to Missouri in about 1838. He married Sarah Jane Hand, daughter of George Hand and Mahala Smith, 22 June 1852. They had five children. They moved to Colorado in 1864 and Sarah died in 1865. John married Sarah's half sister, Mahala Hand, daughter of George Hand and Sarah Shepherd, 13 November 1866 in Bethany, Missouri. They had eight children. He died 8 August 1911. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri and Colorado.
The Letters of John Wesley Hardin
Courtesy special collections Albert B. Alkek Library, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.
The Life of John Wesley Hardin
In an American Old West populated by fierce outlaws, badmen and gunslingers, John Wesley Hardin was perhaps the most notorious. Born to a Methodist preacher in 1853, near Bonham, Texas, Wes Hardin killed his first man, a former slave of his uncle's, at the tender age of 15. Fearing that he'd receive unfair treatment in a Union occupied state where one third of the police force were former slaves, Hardin went into hiding. The authorities wasted no time in discovering Wes Hardin, but when they sent three Union soldiers to arrest him, Hardin confronted his pursuers: 'thus it was by the fall of 1868 I had killed four men and was myself wounded in the arm'. Knowing he could not return, Hardin tra...
Gunfighter
" ... the only authentic autobiography of a gunfighter ... reveals [what] made him the most dreaded killer in Texas, admitting to at least 40 fatal shootings ..."--Cover.
The Life of John Wesley Hardin
Hero or Villain? John Wesley Hardin, aka "Young Seven Up," "Little Arkansas," "Wes Clemmons" and "J. H. Swain," was a notorious outlaw and gunfighter who killed his first man at age 15 in 1868 and, according to himself, went on to kill over 40 more by the time he was sent to prison at age 25. He served 16 years of a 25 year sentence before being pardoned. While in prison he studied law and after his release managed to pass the Bar exam and took up the occupation of attorney. During the Reconstruction Era in Texas, just after the Civil War, many folks considered him a hero for standing up to the Federal Army of occupation and the State Police, many of whom were former slaves. His first victim...
John Wesley Hardin
Thus spoke one lawman about John Wesley Hardin, easily the most feared and fearless of all the gunfighters in the West. Nobody knows the exact number of his victims-perhaps as few as twenty or as many as fifty. In his way of thinking, Hardin never shot a man who did not deserve it. Seeking to gain insight into Hardin’s homicidal mind, Leon Metz describes how Hardin’s bloody career began in post-Civil War Central Texas, when lawlessness and killings were commonplace, and traces his life of violence until his capture and imprisonment in 1878. After numerous unsuccessful escape attempts, Hardin settled down and received a pardon years later in 1895. He wrote an autobiography but did not live to see it published. Within a few months of his release, John Selman gunned him down in an El Paso saloon.
A Lawless Breed
John Wesley Hardin spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive. Hardin left an autobiography in which he detailed many of the troubles of his life. In A Lawless Breed, Parsons and Brown 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 a complete lie.
