Biographies – John Wesley Hardin
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John Wesley
Hardin
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Era: 19th Century |
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Importance: Gunfighter and criminal |
Module: American West |
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John Wesley Hardin Hardin was a Gunfighter who killed almost 30 people in the West. Hardin had a ferocious reputation for his senseless acts of violence and murder. He was able to get away with his crimes because his victims were largely non-Whites and a lack of law and order at the start of the settlement of the West in the 1860s-70s. Gunfighters of Hardin’s ilk quickly became a thing of legend as the Government introduced local Sheriffs and Marshalls to enforce the law and keep the peace. |
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