A lawless breed [electronic resource] : John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and violence in the Wild West / by Chuck Parsons and Norman Wayne Brown ; with a foreword by Leon C. Metz

Author:: Parsons, Chuck
Published:: Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, c2013.
Physical Description:: xxii, 490 p. : ill., map, photographs ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Brown, Norman Wayne

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Number 14 in the A. C. Greene series

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Contents:

First blood -- Gunfire in Hill County -- Mexico or Kansas? -- Shedding blood in Kansas -- The Texas State Police -- Capture and escape -- The end of Jack Helm -- Killing intensifies -- A "bully from Canada" -- Fighting Waller's Texas Rangers -- Leaving the Lone Star State -- Troubles in Florida -- "Texas, by God!" -- Hardin on trial -- Huntsville and punishment -- Dreams of a future -- Seeing Jane again -- A full pardon -- Attorney at law, J.W. Hardin -- Troubles in Pecos -- Troubles in El Paso -- "I'll meet you smoking" -- The youngest brother -- End of the gunfighters.

Subject(s):

Hardin, John Wesley, 1853-1895
Outlaws—Texas—Biography
Frontier and pioneer life—Texas
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)—Texas
Violence—Texas—History—19th century
Texas—History—1846-1950

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ISBN:

9781574415056 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781574415155 (ebook)

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 472-480) and index.

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