Hardin Goes to Blazes

In the late summer of 1895, El Paso, Texas, was John Wesley Hardin’s town. A few months earlier, the attorney had been brought in to help his infamous in-law Jim Miller fight an assault with intent to kill charge. Hardin rented an office on the second floor of the Wells Fargo Building on El Paso Street. But his past didn’t shake loose. Hardin spent less time at the office and courthouse and more time at the gambling houses and saloons—places like the Wigwam, which he eventually bought