Who had the fastest draw: John Wesley Hardin, Wild Bill Hickok or Doc Holliday?
John H. Harper
Leeds, Yorkshire, England
That’s a tough one—especially since they never shot it out with one another. Holliday wasn’t really a gunfighter. Hickok was good with a gun. Hardin was deadly.
The latter two reportedly had a little run-in at Abilene, Kansas, in 1871. Hickok, who was the town ma
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