John Wesley Hardin was one of the most interesting’ gunslingers in Texas-maybe the entire West. Strange enough; he was born to a Methodist minister but that didn’t seem to stop him none when it came to gettin’ in trouble. When he wasn’t but 14, he stabbed another fella over a gal and a year later he had done made his first kill. He had gotten into a fight with another boy and to hear him tell it, the boy just wouldn’t let it go. Hardin said he didn’t want to kill the other fella, but he just kept comin’ so “I kept shootin’, till I shot him down.”
Well, that put him on the run from the law. Turns out he killed a former slave and since the War Between the States had just ended, the Union Army was hot on his trail to bring him in for murder. Hardin hole up at his brothers house a few miles away, hopin’ things would die down soon.

The Union Army had other ideas and had set a handful of soldiers on his trail. Young Hardin was plenty smart and figured out what was goin’ on. Before the soldiers could bring him in, Hardin ambushed ‘em and killed all three. Less than a year later he killed another soldier who was still trying to root him out. Not even sixteen years old yet, and he had already taken five lives.

Interestingly enough, when Hardin was finally brought in at the age of 17, it wasn’t for the five murders he did commit but for one he didn’t commit. The law hauled him into jail and had him coolin’ his heels while he waited to be transferred to another prison. Somehow, Hardin managed to outwit them and get a gun smuggled to him. Before the day was up, he had made his sixth kill and escaped from the guard who was supposed to be keepin’ watch over him.

Well, he managed to elude the law for the next few years but still stayed on the wrong side of it. He killed at least six more men, including one who he shot through a wall because the man was snoring. He got picked up once but broke out of jail within just a few weeks and finally hotfooted it Florida, where he spent a couple of years.

A Pinkerton detective finally managed to track ‘im down and bring him in on charges of murder. The State of Texas was determined to have Hardin do time for his crimes and do time he did-this time for 15 years before he was finally pardoned.

Seems he put the time in the hoosegow to good use, though-he spent it studying law and when he finally got out at the ripe old age of 42 he set hisself up a law practice.

It weren’t long before he got back in trouble-seems he just couldn’t stay out of it. After he mouthed off about an El Paso lawman, he found himself facing the wrong end of a gun and this time he didn’t live to tell about it.

Now, there’s been more stories about Billy the Kid; his deeds and escapes and how he was finally captured and died than a body could shake a stick at, but accordin’ to most folks this how it happened:

The kid and his gang had been on the run for a long time and there was a reward on Billy’s head; whether he was brought in alive or not. Governor Wallace had his fill up Billy and his friends and was pretty much determined to put a stop to it one way or ‘other. Pat Garrett, the sheriff of Lincoln County, had been hot on his trail for awhile but always seemed to just miss him. Along ‘bout the winter of 1880 Billy and his friends holed up inside n abandoned house and kept the posse that had tracked ‘em down busy for near two days with a stand-off. When the Kid and his gang ran out of ammo they didn’t see much of a choice but to surrender, so they finally gave in, but that wasn’t to be the last of it for Billy and his friends; no sirree!

Garrett hauled the Kid back to stand trial for murder and he was sentenced to be hung. Well, while he was awaitin’ for his turn in the noose, Billy got the bright idea to escape from jail. Now, here’s where the story takes a few different turns but most folks stand by the fact that the Kid told his jailer he needed to use the privy and then used the chance to make his getaway. He managed to grab some guns and shoot the two jailers, then make his way out of town.

When Garrett heard about the Kid’s escape he was madder than a wet hen and decided nothing was going to stop him from seeing the Kid swing from a noose. It took him some time but he finally tracked the Kid down to a ranch in New Mexico where he was visiting a certain young senorita.

Garrett managed to make his way in the house and laid in wait for the Kid. Little did the outlaw know that his long time enemy was waitin’ ‘round a darkened doorway for him. As the Kid came into the house, Pat Garrett fired and took out the Kid right where he stood.

Some people say that Garrett shot the Kid in the back, others say he didn’t shoot the Kid at all and it was someone else who had the dubious honor. The truth may never be known.

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