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Author : John Wesley Hardin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Life of John Wesley Hardin written by John Wesley Hardin and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leon Claire Metz
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806129952
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (299 download)
Download or read book John Wesley Hardin written by Leon Claire Metz and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Chuck Parsons
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574415050
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book A Lawless Breed written by Chuck Parsons and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : John Wesley Hardin
Publisher : Creation Books
ISBN 13 : 9781840680386
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Gunfighter written by John Wesley Hardin and published by Creation Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... 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.
Author : John Wesley Hardin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806110516
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Life of John Wesley Hardin written by John Wesley Hardin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era and an area notable for badmen and gunslingers, John Wesley Hardin was perhaps the most notorious. Considered by many of his contemporaries to be almost illiterate, he nevertheless left for publication after his death in 1895 this autobiography, which, though biased, is remarkably accurate and readable. Hardin was born in 1853 in Bonham, Texas, the son of a Methodist preacher. His first brush with the law came at the age of fifteen when he killed a Negro during an altercation typical of the strife-torn Reconstruction era. In the ten years between his first killing in 1868 and his final capture and imprisonment, he killed more than a score of men in personal combat and became the "most wanted" fugitive of his time.
Author : John Wesley Hardin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571686220
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (862 download)
Download or read book The Letters of John Wesley Hardin written by John Wesley Hardin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtesy special collections Albert B. Alkek Library, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.
Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781983544392
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Legends of the West written by Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures. *Includes quotes from Hardin's autobiography about his life and notorious events. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "I never killed anyone who didn't need killing." - John Wesley Hardin Space may be the final frontier, but no frontier has ever captured the American imagination like the "Wild West," which still evokes images of dusty cowboys, outlaws, gunfights, gamblers, and barroom brawls over 100 years after the West was settled. A constant fixture in American pop culture, the 19th century American West continues to be vividly and colorful portrayed not just as a place but as a state of mind. In Charles River Editors' Legends of the West series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most famous frontier figures in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. America has always preferred heroes who weren't clean cut, an informal ode to the rugged individualism and pioneering spirit that defined the nation in previous centuries. After the early 19th century saw the glorification of frontier folk heroes like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, a new breed of folk icons inhabited the Wild West, and one of the most notorious and controversial of them all is John Wesley Hardin, still regarded today as Texas' most deadly gunfighter and most famous outlaw. Outlaws like Jesse James and Billy the Kid robbed and fought their way into dime novels, but Hardin managed to write his own way in, all while his encounters with the law in the South during Reconstruction made him a hero of sorts among Southerners. Hardin managed a stint in prison, claimed to have killed dozens of men, had an encounter with Wild Bill Hickok, and was even alleged to have killed a man because he was snoring. Despite all that activity, Hardin also managed to write an autobiography of his life, a unique feat among most outlaws of the era, who were too busy merely trying to avoid justice and/or death. Of course, Hardin's claims in the autobiography have also been subjected to much scrutiny by historians, even as his reputation and legacy were hardened by his life and notorious death. While he had several documented and well-known brushes with the law and other famous Westerners, historians still attempt to sort out the facts from the legends. Legends of the West: The Life and Legacy of John Wesley Hardin chronicles the outlaw's life and examines the myths and legends surrounding his story. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Hardin like you never have before, in no time at all.
Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 0786033452
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Forty Times a Killer: written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century William Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone are the acclaimed masters of the American frontier and national bestsellers. Now, they take on the deadliest and most feared outlaw to ever walk the Old West--John Wesley Hardin. First he became a killer. Then he became a legend. He was 15 when he killed his first man. Before his murderous ways ended, Hardin killed 42 men in cold blood--one, the legend goes, because he snored too loudly. From then on John Wesley Hardin stayed true to his calling, killing man after man after man, spending most of his life being pursued by both local lawmen and federal troops. Hardin lived a fever dream of lightning fast draws and flying lead. By the age of seventeen, Hardin earned a deadly reputation for cold-blooded killing that drew traitors, backstabbers and wanna-be gunslingers--all for a chance to gun down the man who had turned killing into an all-American legend. . .
Author : James Carlos Blake
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 080218975X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Pistoleer written by James Carlos Blake and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author’s “fearless” debut novel chronicles the life of a legendary Texas outlaw with “a ruthless sensibility . . . spare and tough” (Publishers Weekly). Some called him a Texas hero. Some called him the Devil himself. But on one point they all agreed. While he was alive, John Wesley Hardin was the deadliest man in Texas. A killer at fifteen, in the next few years he became skilled enough with his pistols to back down Wild Bill Hickok in the street. The law finally caught up with him when he was twenty-five. By then, he had killed as many as forty men and been shot so many times that, it was said, he carried a pound of lead in his flesh. In jail he became a scholar, studying law books until he won himself freedom, and afterwards he tried to lead an upright life. It was not to be. By the time he was killed in 1895, Hardin was an anachronism—the last true gunfighter of the Old West. With each chapter told from a different character’s perspective, The Pistoleer is “a genuine tour-de-force” of Western historical fiction from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning author of In the Rogue Blood (Rocky Mountain News). “Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews “Detailed and cinematic.” —Publishers Weekly “An achievement by any standards, but as a first novel is simply astounding.” —Roundup Magazine
Author : Jack Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780878166183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Lost Cause written by Jack Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wesley Hardin, the most famous and violent gunfighter ever to ride across the sweeping Texas landscape, comes to life again in this gripping true story that spans over forty years in the tumultuous history of nineteenth century Texas. Hero and villain, Hardin rode across post-Civil War Texas, reputedly having killed twenty-three men, including Carpetbaggers, Federal soldiers, and Indians. His legend continues to grow in our own times - from the famous song by Bob Dylan, to the fierce legal battles between two Texas towns over Hardin's body!
Author : Chuck Parsons
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603444963
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman written by Chuck Parsons and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Elmer Kelton notes in his afterword to this book, "Chuck Parsons' biography is a long-delayed and much-justified tribute to Armstrong's service to Texas." Parsons fills in the missing details of a Ranger and rancher's life, correcting some common misconceptions and adding to the record of a legendary group of lawmen and pioneers.
Author : James M. Smallwood
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603440172
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Feud That Wasn’t written by James M. Smallwood and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marauding outlaws, or violent rebels still bent on fighting the Civil War? For decades, the so-called “Taylor-Sutton feud” has been seen as a bloody vendetta between two opposing gangs of Texas gunfighters. However, historian James M. Smallwood here shows that what seemed to be random lawlessness can be interpreted as a pattern of rebellion by a loose confederation of desperadoes who found common cause in their hatred of the Reconstruction government in Texas. Between the 1850s and 1880, almost 200 men rode at one time or another with Creed Taylor and his family through a forty-five-county area of Texas, stealing and killing almost at will, despite heated and often violent opposition from pro-Union law enforcement officials, often led by William Sutton. From 1871 until his eventual arrest, notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin served as enforcer for the Taylors. In 1874 in the streets of Comanche, Texas, on his twenty-first birthday, Hardin and two other members of the Taylor ring gunned down Brown County Deputy Charlie Webb. This cold-blooded killing—one among many—marked the beginning of the end for the Taylor ring, and Hardin eventually went to the penitentiary as a result. The Feud That Wasn’t reinforces the interpretation that Reconstruction was actually just a continuation of the Civil War in another guise, a thesis Smallwood has advanced in other books and articles. He chronicles in vivid detail the cattle rustling, horse thieving, killing sprees, and attacks on law officials perpetrated by the loosely knit Taylor ring, drawing a composite picture of a group of anti-Reconstruction hoodlums who at various times banded together for criminal purposes. Western historians and those interested in gunfighters and lawmen will heartily enjoy this colorful and meticulously researched narrative.
Author : Dennis McCown
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865348995
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)
Download or read book The Goddess of War written by Dennis McCown and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wesley Hardin is the most famous gunfighter of the American Wild West. The subject of conversations from the Mexican border to the rowdy saloons of Kansas, he was the greatest celebrity of the age. He wrote an autobiography, but he only told what he wanted known, and few have researched beyond that. Today, Hardin is an enigma. Part of the mystery is his disastrous relationship with Helen Beulah Mrose, yet she has not been researched at all. Until now. Helen Beulah’s story is the final piece of the vast jigsaw of Hardin’s life and legend. Author Dennis McCown has delved into the mystery of Helen Beulah. Researching from Florida to California and north to faraway Alaska, McCown has uncovered one of the great tragedies of the Wild West. He developed this into the story of those around John Wesley Hardin. In the end, this is a woman’s story, not a gunfighter’s, and it’s also four biographies. Hardin’s story is told, but so is Helen Mrose’s. Martin Mrose and Laura Jennings are little known today, but their lives are integral to the mystery. Written for a general audience, the story includes footnotes for those interested in knowing more, footnotes historian Leon Metz called “the best I’ve ever seen.”
Author : Chuck Parsons
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574412574
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book The Sutton-Taylor Feud written by Chuck Parsons and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, Rangers, Quarrels, Trials.
Author : John Wesley Hardin
Publisher : Badgley Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0615580556
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (155 download)
Download or read book The Life of John Wesley Hardin written by John Wesley Hardin and published by Badgley Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was a black man and he went on to kill many more. Others say he was a cold-blooded murderer who killed more for personal reasons and minor disagreements than any other cause. He supposedly shot and killed a man for simply snoring too loud. He always had a reason to justify his killing. He once said, "I never killed a man who didn't need killin!'" This book contains the story of his life and escapades in his own words. Read it and judge for yourself. Originally published in 1896. This book is part of the Historical Collection of Badgley Publishing Company. This book is not an OCR'd or photocopied reproduction. It has been completely recreated from the text of the original book. Original photos and illustrations have been enhanced and other photos and illustrations have been added. The contents from the original book have not been altered except for minor spelling and grammatical errors and only then, when not in conflict with the author's original intent or portrayal. Footnotes and addendums have been made to either enhance the author's subject matter or correct the author's mistaken historical facts. Beware of other publisher's books bearing this title. Amazon has elected to include their reviews on every book of the same or similar title. Badgley Publishing Company produces only quality recreated books, not OCR'd or Photocopied reproductions with missing pages and garbled text. Low rated reviews on this book's Amazon page are reviews applying to other publisher's works.
Author : Jack White
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312376414
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Preacherman's Son: Gunfighter John Wesley Hardin written by Jack White and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wesley Hardin was the son of a Methodist minister who named his second boy after the founder of his church. The Reverend wanted Wes to become a man of faith; along the way the Preacherman's son drifted. By the time Wes was 15 he shot and killed 4 men. These deaths were the gateway to a killing spree that lasted ten years. Not a serial killer the majority of Hardin's shootings were carried out in the old west tradition; the man with the fastest draw wins. By the time Hardin was 25 he had killed 42 men. Wes' life story reads like an old fashioned, page turning murder mystery. The action takes place immediately after the Civil War during the Reconstruction period. He was the most wanted man in the state; Texas Rangers, local Sheriffs, Union Soldiers and numerous bounty hunters frantically looked for John Wesley Hardin. If you enjoy a thriller Preacherman's Son will not disappoint. My heartfelt wish is you will enjoy reading my historical novel as much as I did penning the words.
Author : Chuck Parsons
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574417266
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Captain Jack Helm written by Chuck Parsons and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Captain Jack Helm, Chuck Parsons explores the life of John Jackson “Jack” Helm, whose main claim to fame has been that he was a victim of man-killer John Wesley Hardin. That he was, but he was much more in his violence-filled lifetime during Reconstruction Texas. First as a deputy sheriff, then county sheriff, and finally captain of the notorious Texas State Police, he developed a reputation as a violent and ruthless man-hunter. He arrested many suspected lawbreakers, but often his prisoner was killed before reaching a jail for “attempting to escape.” This horrific tendency ultimately brought about his downfall. Helm’s aggressive enforcement of his version of “law and order” resulted in a deadly confrontation with two of his enemies in the midst of the Sutton-Taylor Feud. “Captain Jack Helm is more than a fine gunfighter biography: it is a vivid statement about the murderous violence of Reconstruction in Texas.”—Bill O’Neal, State Historian of Texas
