In November of 1868 - at just the tender age of fifteen - John Wesley Hardin killed his first man. And, a few weeks later, he’d kill yet again; this time three soldiers who came looking for him. Fearing a hangman’s noose, Wes struck first, dispatching two troopers with his shotgun and finishing the third with an old cap and ball colt. And believe me when I say, the hits just kept on coming. Before it was said and done, Hardin would be responsible for anywhere between 20 to possibly as many as 50 killings, each of which - according to him - were justifiable. But how true is that? Was John Wesley Hardin a persecuted hero or a homicidal killer? How’d the son of a minister become one of the deadliest gunmen of the Old West? And did he really kill someone just for snoring?
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