John Wesley Hardin – Dark Angel of Texas ~ Metz

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From the Western & Civil War research/reference library of Jerry Crandall

John Wesley Hardin – Dark Angel of Texas 

by Leon Metz

condition; good, minor shelf wear on soft cover

University of Oklahoma Press, 1998

The author describes how Hardin’s bloody career began in post-Civil War Central Texas, when lawlessness and killings were commonplace. He traces Hardin’s life of violence until his capture and imprisonment in 1878. After numerous unsuccessful escape attempts, Hardin settled down receiving a pardon years later in 1895. He wrote an autobiography but did not live to see it published. Within a few months of his release, John Selman gunned him down in an El Paso Saloon.