By the time he died in August 1895, John Wesley Hardin had finished about 200 pages of
his autobiography, up to the year 1889. Researchers Chuck Parsons and Norman Wayne
Brown believe his paramour, Helen Beulah Mrose, probably wrote the work as Wes sank into alcoholism and inertia (outside of gambling).
When he died, Hardin’s three children went to court and won the rights to the manuscript,
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