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Today we begin a new series, appearing every Wednesday, profiling one notorious outlaw who was roaming the American Wild West in the late-1800s. I hope that you will enjoy the series as much as I did writing it. Enjoy!.
Michael
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John Wesley Hardin
John Wesley Hardin was an Old West outlaw and gunfighter. Hardin was often in trouble with the law, even from an early age. He killed his first man at the age of 15, claiming it was done in self-defense.
Chased by lawmen for the more significant part of his life, in 1877, when he was only 23, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for murder. Hardin maintained that he had killed 44 men at the time of sentencing, while historians attribute 27 deaths to him. While in prison, Hardin wrote an autobiography and studied law. He was known for exaggerating or fabricating stories about his life and claimed credit for numerous killings that cannot be documented.
Within a year of his release from prison in 1894, Hardin was murdered by John Selman Sr. in an El Paso saloon.
Image: John Wesley Hardin.
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