A Lawless Breed by Chuck Parsons, Norman Wayne Brown, Leon C.... - 9781574415551

A Lawless BreedJohn Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West\nAuthor(s): Chuck Parsons, Norman Wayne Brown, Leon C. Metz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of North Texas Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: University of North Texas Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781574415551, 978-1574415551\nSynopsis\nJohn Wesley Hardin! His name spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive with a $4,000 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 establishing a home of sorts in wild and woolly El Paso as an attorney. He becam.