John Wesley Hardin: Texas Gunfighter
THE TRUE STORY OF THE BOY KILLER, JOHN WESLEY HARDIN, ACE OF THE FAST-GUN CROWD….MURDERER OF FORTY MEN….

LIVING AND DYING WESTERN STYLE was paced by the fast-gun gentry, and John Wesley Hardin was the most prominent pace-setter among them. No gun in Texas was so deadly; no gunfighter so young. And yet many said he was a smart, friendly man, fighting on the side of Right...against the cruel and corrupt Carpetbaggers who overran his beloved Lone Star State...

Hardin, criminal or saint, was fearless...and fast. He survived the blazing guns of other killers, countless Ranger roundups, the bloody Taylor-Sutton Feud, lynching parties and stalks by Pinkerton detectives. He outwitted his guards at the prison in Huntsville who tried to break him via the inhuman and ingenious “Water-house Torture.” He even survived his own reputation....In middle-age John Wesley Hardin became a lawyer and was admitted to the Texas Bar.

But could he survive his own nature’s dark side?
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John Wesley Hardin: Texas Gunfighter
THE TRUE STORY OF THE BOY KILLER, JOHN WESLEY HARDIN, ACE OF THE FAST-GUN CROWD….MURDERER OF FORTY MEN….

LIVING AND DYING WESTERN STYLE was paced by the fast-gun gentry, and John Wesley Hardin was the most prominent pace-setter among them. No gun in Texas was so deadly; no gunfighter so young. And yet many said he was a smart, friendly man, fighting on the side of Right...against the cruel and corrupt Carpetbaggers who overran his beloved Lone Star State...

Hardin, criminal or saint, was fearless...and fast. He survived the blazing guns of other killers, countless Ranger roundups, the bloody Taylor-Sutton Feud, lynching parties and stalks by Pinkerton detectives. He outwitted his guards at the prison in Huntsville who tried to break him via the inhuman and ingenious “Water-house Torture.” He even survived his own reputation....In middle-age John Wesley Hardin became a lawyer and was admitted to the Texas Bar.

But could he survive his own nature’s dark side?
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John Wesley Hardin: Texas Gunfighter

John Wesley Hardin: Texas Gunfighter

by Lee Floren
John Wesley Hardin: Texas Gunfighter

John Wesley Hardin: Texas Gunfighter

by Lee Floren

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THE TRUE STORY OF THE BOY KILLER, JOHN WESLEY HARDIN, ACE OF THE FAST-GUN CROWD….MURDERER OF FORTY MEN….

LIVING AND DYING WESTERN STYLE was paced by the fast-gun gentry, and John Wesley Hardin was the most prominent pace-setter among them. No gun in Texas was so deadly; no gunfighter so young. And yet many said he was a smart, friendly man, fighting on the side of Right...against the cruel and corrupt Carpetbaggers who overran his beloved Lone Star State...

Hardin, criminal or saint, was fearless...and fast. He survived the blazing guns of other killers, countless Ranger roundups, the bloody Taylor-Sutton Feud, lynching parties and stalks by Pinkerton detectives. He outwitted his guards at the prison in Huntsville who tried to break him via the inhuman and ingenious “Water-house Torture.” He even survived his own reputation....In middle-age John Wesley Hardin became a lawyer and was admitted to the Texas Bar.

But could he survive his own nature’s dark side?

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ISBN-13: 9781789126570
Publisher: Borodino Books
Publication date: 12/05/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 106
File size: 812 KB

About the Author

Lee Floren (1910-1995) was an American writer who, under various pseudonyms, published some 300 novels in a variety of genres, including western, Gothic, juvenile, detective, and biographical novels and novelettes, as well as case study books on medical and psychological subjects. He also contributed around 1,000 short stories and articles, also under various pseudonyms, to popular publications. Floren wrote under the names Brett Austin, R. V. Donald, Lisa Fanchon, Claudia Hall, Wade Hamilton, Matt Harding, Matthew Whitman Harding, Felix Lee Horton, Mark Kirby, Grace Lang, Marguerite Nelson, Lew Smith, Maria Sandra Sterling, Lee Thomas, Len Turner, Will Watson and Dave Wilson. He was born on March 22, 1910, in Hinsdale, Montana and received his B.A. degree from Santa Barbara State College (now the University of California, Santa Barbara). He was awarded his teaching certificate by the Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, and received his M.A. degree from Texas Western College (now University of Texas in El Paso) in 1964. Floren taught woodshop and science in California between 1942-1945, before becoming a freelance writer in 1945. He won the Colt 44 Award in 1979 for his novel The Rawhide Men.
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