August 2008 – Week 4
TITLE: GUNMAN’S END
AUGUST 1895 AND A TEXAS LEGEND IS NO MORE.
THIS WEEK IN TEXAS HISTORY, BROUGHT TO YOU BY NEWSTALK 930 KLUP AND THE SAVE TEXAS HISTORY PROGRAM OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
AUGUST 19, 1895. EL PASO. BORN IN BONHAM, JOHN WESLEY HARDIN IS ONE OF THE DEADLIEST GUNSLINGERS IN THE WEST, HAVING KILLED OVER THIRTY MEN BEFORE GETTING SENT TO PRISON IN 1871.
NOW, HARDIN IS TRYING TO SETTLE DOWN, OPENING A LAW OFFICE AND WRITING HIS MEMOIRS. BUT WHEN HE HIRES CROOKED LAWMEN TO KILL HIS LOVER’S HUSBAND, THE DEAL GOES BAD.
TONIGHT, ONE HIRED GUN, CONSTABLE JOHN SELMAN, WALKS UP BEHIND HARDIN AS HE’S THROWING DICE AT THE ACME SALOON. HE FIRES THREE TIMES AND THE FAMOUS OUTLAW IS DEAD – SHOT IN THE BACK.
JOHN WESLEY HARDIN’S PAST CAUGHT UP WITH HIM ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN YEARS AGO, THIS WEEK IN TEXAS HISTORY.
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