Texas shootist John Wesley Hardin had a career that spanned three decades (minus 16 years in prison). Texas shootist John Wesley Hardin had a career that spanned three decades (minus 16 years in prison), ranging from the end of the percussion era of the 1860s to well into the age of metallic cartridge arms of 1895. Although firearms were probably nothing more than mere tools to him, Hardin obviously enjoyed handling them; eyewitness accounts report him practicing with his six-guns. Very early


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