"My daddy, he made whiskey
And my granddaddy did too
And we ain’t paid no whiskey tax
Since Seventeen Ninety-Two."
—Albert Frank Beddoe
The notorious gunfighter John Wesley Hardin was given a 25-year prison sentence for murder in the second degree after
being convicted in the district court of Comanche County, Texas, for killing Brown County Deputy Sheriff Charlie Webb.
Nearly 25 years after the deadly shoot-out, in 1897, almost 500 miles to the northeast, in the mountains o
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