Everyone knew that John Wesley Hardin was one of the deadliest gunfighters in all the West. Which is why, late in the evening of August 19, 1895, John Selman shot him in the back of the head. And, as Hardin lay dying on the floor of the Acme Saloon in El Paso, Selman fired three more shots—two of them striking the famously ill-tempered gunman.
It wasn’t supposed to happen that way. After his release from prison in 1894, Hardin drifted for a year before arriving in El Paso to start a n
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