| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 490 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Number 14 in the A.C. Greene series
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A.C. Greene series ; 14.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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 establishing. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hardin, John Wesley, 1853-1895.
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Hardin, John Wesley, 1853-1895. |
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
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Outlaws -- Texas -- Biography.
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Outlaws. |
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Texas. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas.
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Texas.
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Texas -- History -- 1846-1950.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1846-1950 |
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Violence -- Texas -- History -- 19th century.
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Violence. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1950 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Brown, Norman Wayne.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Parsons, Chuck. Lawless breed. Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, ©2013 9781574415056 (DLC) 2013009230 (OCoLC)822532985 |
| ISBN |
9781574415155 (electronic book) |
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1574415158 (electronic book) |
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9781574415056 |
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1574415050 |
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