Tumbling Dice Wins Hardin a One-way Ticket to Hell…John Wesley Hardin vs Constable John Selman

August 19, 1895 Wes Hardin is drunk and furious. “I’ll go and get a gun,” he bellows at John Selman, Sr., “and when I meet you I’ll meet you smoking, and make you shit like a wolf around the block!” The two part ways. Later that night, Hardin is standing at the bar, just inside the front door of the Acme Saloon in El Paso, Texas, rolling dice for drinks with a local grocer. According to the clock on the wall, it is the eleventh hour, but for the aging gunfighter, the se