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May 25, 2005
John Wesley Hardin Day in Comanche, Texas
The son of a preacher, Texas outlaw John Wesley Hardin may be the greatest of all gunfighters and probably the deadliest.
Hardin first cut a notch on his six shooter when he was a teenager. Talk about your teen angst! His brother practiced law in Comanche and in 1874, John came to town to celebrate his 21st birthday. Lore has it that John, his brother, Joe and some cousins were first at the horse races, then went to get a cool one at the Jack Wright Saloon. Deputy Webb, from nearby Brown County, came into the saloon and John killed him with a single gunshot. The nice cousins then followed suit, and pumped a few more bullet holes into the former Texas Ranger. An angry...
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Posted on May 25, 2005 05:30 AM by histor459.
Filed in Horse Blog under history of american cowboys.
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