DeWitt County, Texas
DeWitt County, Texas

Author: Willis Gathright

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1412019206

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A novel of love, hate and vengeance set amid the bloodiest feud ever to rack Texas. Bill Taylor survives ambush, stampede, hurricane, gunfights and a trial for murder before finding a measure of peace in Indian Territory.

The Sutton-Taylor Feud
The Sutton-Taylor Feud

Author: Chuck Parsons

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1574412574

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History, Rangers, Quarrels, Trials.

Bad Blood
Bad Blood

Author: Norman Wayne Brown

Publisher: Eakin Press

Published: 2023-02-06

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1681793652

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Chuck Parsons and Norman Wayne Brown are noted experts on the life and times of John Wesley Hardin. They have written numerous books and magazine articles covering the topic from all angles and in such respected publications as True West, Frontier Times, and The Tombstone Epitaph. Their biography, A Lawless Breed: John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction and Violence in the Wild West (Denton: UNT Press, 2013) was relevant about John Wesley Hardin and his siblings at the time. Since then, they learned where John Wesley Hardin was really born, found that Gip Hardin did not die at sea, discovered a rare letter penned by Reverend Hardin to son Joe's widow, Belle, additional evidence surrounding John Wesley Hardin's death in El Paso, 1895, and much more. Some of the new discovered information was reported in articles published by True West, The Tombstone Epitaph, and Journal of Wild West History Association. Some articles have not been published. It seems bad blood ran though the veins of the Hardin brothers and many who associated with them. Hopefully you will find this collection worthwhile in addition to their knowledge of why the "breed" of John Wesley Hardin seemed so lawless.

John Wesley Hardin
John Wesley Hardin

Author: Leon Claire Metz

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1998-03-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780806129952

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Thus spoke one lawman about John Wesley Hardin, easily the most feared and fearless of all the gunfighters in the West. Nobody knows the exact number of his victims-perhaps as few as twenty or as many as fifty. In his way of thinking, Hardin never shot a man who did not deserve it. Seeking to gain insight into Hardin’s homicidal mind, Leon Metz describes how Hardin’s bloody career began in post-Civil War Central Texas, when lawlessness and killings were commonplace, and traces his life of violence until his capture and imprisonment in 1878. After numerous unsuccessful escape attempts, Hardin settled down and received a pardon years later in 1895. He wrote an autobiography but did not live to see it published. Within a few months of his release, John Selman gunned him down in an El Paso saloon.

Jack Jackson's American History
Jack Jackson's American History

Author: Jack Jackson

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2013-01-18

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1606995049

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Los Tejanos is the story of the Texas-Mexican conflict between 1835 and 1875 as seen through the eyes of tejano (literally Texan of Mexican, as distinct from anglo, heritage) Juan Seguín. It is through Seguín, a pivotal and tragic figure, that Jackson humanizes Texas’ fight for independence and provides a human scale for this vast and complex story. Lost Cause documents the violent reaction to Reconstruction by Texans. As Jackson wrote, “Texas reaped a bitter harvest from the War Between the States. Part of this dark legacy was the great unrest that plagued the beaten but unbowed populace.” The tensions caused by Reconstruction are told through the Taylor-Sutton feud, which raged across South Texas, embracing two generations and causing untold grief, and the gunslinger John Wesley Hardin, who swept across Texas killing Carpetbaggers, Federal soldiers, and Indians.