The people of El Paso breathed a sigh of relief Aug. 19, 1895, at the news of the death of John Wesley Hardin at the Acme Saloon. One hundred and fifty years after his death, Hardin, rumored to have ...

John Wesley Hardin was one of the most violent figures of a violent age. Born in Bonham to a Methodist preacher in 1853, he quickly moved to a life of crime. By the time he was 18, he killed perhaps ...

In the summer of 1895 John Selman Sr gunned down John Wesley Hardin. Considered one of the deadliest shootists of the Old west, Hardin killed his first man at the tender age of fifteen. In the decade ...

The violence of the western frontier has alternately fascinated and repelled readers for generations. Gunfights between the law, outlaws, and even in-laws have since become tales retold for decades.