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A lawless breed : John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and violence in the Wild West / by Chuck Parsons and Norman Wayne Brown ; with a foreword by Leon C. Metz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parsons, Chuck.
- Series:
- A.C. Greene series ; 14.
- Number 14 in the A. C. Greene series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Outlaws--Texas--Biography.
- Outlaws.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Texas.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Texas.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- Violence--Texas--History--19th century.
- Violence.
- Texas--History--1846-1950.
- Texas.
- Hardin, John Wesley, 1853-1895.
- Hardin, John Wesley.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (513 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 pardoned by Governor Hogg. For a short while he avoided trouble and roamed westward, eventually establishin
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 472-480) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-57441-515-8
- OCLC:
- 867740176
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