The Story of John Wesley Hardin - Old West Outlaw/Gunslinger
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- Trying something a little different with this video. While I was in El Paso, TX I was able to visit the grave of a famous old west gunslinger, John Wesley Hardin. I did a little research and realized his life was very interesting. So this video is just a drop in the bucket of his life.
JWH was a very interesting character, made a name for himself in the old west. Must have been one of the best six gun handlers around.
Hello, i am from Wales, in the UK. I really enjoyed your post, i grew up watching westerns and looked in awe at the US and its history of these gunmen, lawmen and how it progressed, then died out. I hope you produce more of these historical posts. Huge fan from over the pond.
Thank you so much for watching. This post is very encouraging. Stay tuned. I'll make sure I do some more like this.
@@goodlifeontheroad thank you sir, much appreciated, if possible, could you do some on the old west, Doc Holiday, Billy the kid and of course Marshall Wyatt Earp. Thank you.
Glad you're here. You tube is a wonderful venue for people to connect and enjoy the same entertainment.
Come visit sometime. My great grandfather was from Wales and immigrated before, or during the Civil War. He got his US citizenship by fighting in the Civil War for the Union.
Cheers!
You did well enough. Perhaps if you read it through a time or two before recording, it would sound less choppy. Your enunciation is quite good and I could easily understand you. Thank you for attempting historic content. Quite well done.
Great content and beautifully presented thanks for the upload watching from Melbourne Australia
Great video, thank you. 🇨🇮💚🇨🇮💚
Well done, best of all the videos about this man. Bob Dylan in his song about Hardin seemed a bit sympathetic about Hardin's life singing he was a friend to the poor.
Thank you
Nice video I just retired at the age of 55 hoping to be healthy enough to travel around the United States and do kind of the same thing there's lots of graves I want to visit Good luck out there be safe
You did a awesome job on explaining Mr Hardin. thanks so much...
Thank you for watching
Great video. But wasn't Hickok sheriff of Abilene, Kansas and not Abilene, Tx?
Yes. Had Texas on my mind I guess.
Well done. Thanks.
Just watched a documentary the other night called "Serial Killers of the West" that included Hardin.
I need to look that up. Bet that's interesting.
Hardin is a cousin of my husbands Maternal Great-Grandmother. Bonnie Parker is a relation on the Paternal side of my husbands family.
Oh wow. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for sharing this story, you did great job 👍
Thank you so much
Most excellent video.
I've studied the old west and American history. 43 years of public safety as law enforcement.
I think you video is excellent
You did fantastic
Chief Jones
Oh man, thank you so much. Means a lot.
@@goodlifeontheroad your welcome 🙏 Brother
Just found ya! Loved it!
Fascinating. Love this kind of history telling!!
Thank you
thanks for posting, I learned a lot....
To be honest i really enjoyed that video and greetings from the uk 🇬🇧👍
Thank you for watching
You did a very nice job. I am a distant descendent of JWH and have read both his autobiography and his biography written by someone else so I am very jealous that representation of him is correct...so many get it wrong or sensationalize or villainize him. I think you did well, I believe you portrayed both his good qualities and bad accurately within the time constraints of trying to capture the essence of a man in 15 minutes.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for the video, well done!!
Thank you
Good job. Keep up the effort.
Very nice Jason!
Thank you so much for watching
You did great! Good video!
Thank you
@3:42, according to hardin's account, both john wesley and his older brother challenged mage together because mage was bigger and stronger. did you read his autobiography? they pushed mage's face in the dirt and really got him pissed off, thus his attempt at revenge.............
I did not. That is so interesting. There is so much to his story I couldn't get into this short video. Thank you so much for the comment. Always awesome to learn more.
Excellent video thanks.
Thank you for watching
Good Job ! very interesting video,
He looks crazy in that photo
It always amazes me how these cold blooded murderers are practically worshiped by people, and shrines built for them, rather than the hard-working lawmen who arrested them. And the word to describe him isn’t “famous,” it’s “infamous.”
You are 100% correct.... I guess it's the flawed human thinking. Doesn't matter what country, what continent.... negativity sells, rather than the wholesome, righteous people who make the mundane not so romantic and are the real heroes of civilization.
Now, being the hypocrite I am, I will watch this video😔😔
Interesting, thank you!!
Very good presentation.
Thank you so much
Great job on the video
Thank you so much
I like the work you are doing
Thank you so much. Very encouraging
GREAT JOB.
Thank you
I loved the telling of straightforward facts as they are currently known.
Thank you
There is one thing I have wondered about Hardin many years. His father was a preacher, telling gospel from place to place. So John knew Bible for sure, including "thou shall not kill" or "who lives with a sword,shall die by sword" . Still he became one of worst killers Texas has ever seen. Concerning his background it looks strange. Of course many hated Hardin, and he got few bullet wounds. Once he was shot by shotgun, getting bullets to his stomach. He lived with gun and died by gun. Men like Hardin always claim that they kill for self defence only. But that is only half-true. Probably Hardin provoked some fights to get a reason to kill someone. If you kill over 20 people, it can not be always self defence. Regards, Rudi Rafael.
Wondered that myself. I'm a preachers son too and have always knew better. Bafflingly
I have family who fought for both sides in the civil war and after the war northern troops occupied the South and regularly did horrific deeds to southern people. My family owned no slaves but two of my distant cousins were tourtered by Union troops just for laughs. That's why many became outlaws or broke a few laws
Absolutely right and really wasn't trying to be rude to the teller of the story just know Hardins story. Like you said his dad a methodist minister. By all accounts a good looking kid brought up well. He went bad at 14 with a class mate he got in a fight with. Had a knife on him. Said he would have killed the other kid if it hadn't been broke up. Think it was over a girl. Within a year of that he did kill for the first time. Finally imprisoned in 1878. He claimed he had killed 44 men. Know he got charged with less but some say he probably wasn't to far off. 15 years later received a pardon and while imprisoned of all things studied law. Smart man obviously.. Got out. Started practicing law in El Paso and was gunned down soon after. As you said and I whole heartedly believe. Live by the sword die by the sword. Hey thank you and again was not my intention to be rude to the narrator. Man I just love western history of all sorts.
@@ltd2372 No hard feelings at all. I encourage discussion of all types. I also couldn't agree more with you. This man was a very bad egg.
@@goodlifeontheroad thank you and me as well. Ret U S Navy. The traveling the world part of that expire3ance was the best part of it. World history hands on. Planted the seed so to speak. To know one's history is to know ones self. Again just a hobby of mine but with western history and all that I know of there's always bad guys and he was certainly one of the worst.
Great video, I visited John Wesley Hardin's Grave back in Sept and did a TH-cam video as well. I did a shot of Crown Black with JWH and left my shot with the name of my youtube channel on it. I was looking to see if I could see my shot glass in your video, but I did not see it there. Oh well. Great video with a whole lot of info.
Thank you for watching. I'll have to go check out your video for sure.
The best thing you could do is to keep posting more exciting content!
He had a song written about him by Bob Dylan. He was considered an American Robin Hood.
Oh wow. I did not know that.
Dylan's song paints a very favorable picture of Hardin as "a friend of the poor." Musically a great song, from an album of the same name. One of Dylan's best records.
I was wondering if anyone would point out the Dylan song. Thanks.
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Bravo....cool stuff
Thank you
@@goodlifeontheroad cool stuff and very well made..
..Thank you
Thank you
Enjoyed the video, but I was under the impression that the man shot for snoring was a myth.
Not according to John Wesley Hardin in his book however he has been known to exaggerate
I always remembered the Time Life commercial “John Wesley Hardin. So mean …he once killed a man just for snoring”
Oh wow. I didn't even know there was a commerical
@@goodlifeontheroad back in the late seventies
Thanks!
Thank you
These were focused individuals, a small breed of TRUE gunfighters.
Very Good Synopsis ........
You did fail to mention his
Run in with Comanche Tx.
Deputy Sheriff in a Gunfight
I which Hardin although
Wounded managed to
Kill Deputy who had lost
A horse race to Hardin
Hardins relative and a
Friend were caught and
Hung but Hardin escaped.
Good job!..Judge Roy Bean ..is a good tale..
Thank you for the tip. I'll look into that one
Hardin is reputed to have been one of the coldest killers from the Old West, favoring both guns and knives. An example of the hardness of the man is the confirmed story of Hardin considering the purchase a gun, and trying the gun out with aiming at and shooting at a man who was walking on the boardwalk on the other side of the street, essentially using the man a a moving target. Hardin killed the man with the single shot.
WOW 🥺😳😱
Yes a very important guy for Bob Dylan to sing a song about him.
Very good! You mentioned Hardin introduced himself as Wesley Clements. Clements are the name of his cousins in the old West stories. My maiden name is Clements. My 3rd great grandmother was a Hardin. John Wesley Hardin, aunt Martha who married emmanuel Clements. You mentioned Gip Clements That is my 2nd great grandfather.
Oh wow. That's awesome. I'm not sure which picture you are referring too. I try to pick actual pictures but sometime they isn't a picture out there such as the school house knife scene.
Thanks for responding. I am still listening to your story. It's a well put together story. Thanks for sharing it.
@@RRECS thanks for listening. Be on the look out for the Story of Jesse James. Got to visit his home in Missouri. Still working on the video.
I hate guys who snore myself
😂😆
Thank you for the video. I think you may have Abilene Texas and Abilene Kansas confused.
You are correct. I did have that wrong.
great video .. better than history channel
Wow thank you so much very humbled
Good Job
Thank you
Check out The Lawless Breed 1953 Western Rock Hudson Julie Adams Dennis Weaver Lee Van Cleef. The story of John Wesley Hardin.Brilliant!!
Thanks, I sure will.
Lawyers is a good one.
I will say that Hardin was shot in the front I hunt and have seen deer shot with the .44 Winchester it fires a Smith and Wesson pistol bullet, very close to if not the same bullet he was killed with. Anyways what I observed Was a hole the size of the bullet where it entered and a ragged hole 2-3 times the size of the bullet at the exit. And the bruising/trauma is 2-3 inches back from, and surrounding the exit wound, the entrance wound had like a half inch of purple bruising around it. He was definitely shot in the front no doubt in my mind!
Oh wow. Very interesting. Thank you so much for sharing.
yea he was shot in the front after he was dead and on the floor by that yellow bastrd
Guess those witnesses were full of it
I'm pretty sure Wild Bill Hickok was Town Marshal of Abilene, Kansas. Not Texas.
You are absolutely correct. Mistake that slipped by me when I recorded this. Thank you for mentioning this.
Hardin bragged of having pulled the Road Agent's Spin stunt on Wild Bill, of having been singled out and recognized by Wild Bill for his gun handling prowess, and for paling around with Wild Bill; however, Wild Bill asserted he had never known or had any involvement with Hardin.
Wild Bill was a superlative fast draw artist and an effortless killer. Once he had cleaned up Abilene, his quick-to-kill temperament and loose interpretation of the law caused the townsfolk to encourage him to move on. The Road Agent Spin is a well known and recognizable pistol stunt, and Wild Bill would have likely killed anyone trying it on him.
While they were both in Abilene while Wild Bill was Sheriff, historians generally believe Hardin greatly admired, and stayed clear of, Wild Bill.
So interesting. Thank you for sharing
@@goodlifeontheroad Liked your video. Whatever the interaction between Hardin and Wild Bill, it's remarkable how small a "people space" the Wild West was, and how frequently the legends crossed paths. You might like this video of the Road Agent's Spin, once in real time and slow motion, and once with Clint Eastwood sped up with movie magic. th-cam.com/video/YDe5NurHGeo/w-d-xo.html
Probably one of the greatest gun fighters of all time. He was evidently an amazing gun handler and practiced fast draw techniques until his death. He was shot in the back of the head because the shooter was no doubt afraid to face him in a fair fight. Its hard to appreciate how good some of these men of that day were guns. If you search for Ed McGivern, a trick shot artists of the 20 and 30s on You Tube you might get an idea.
Awesome. Thanks for the tip
That would put him up there with Billy the Kid.
As a boy, he killed another boy in a knife fight and was ALMOST expelled.
We were once made of sterner stuff.
My thoughts exactly. If some kid even brought a pocket knife to school now they would never see the inside of a school again.
He was a sociopath. There was nothing admirable about him.
Couldn't agree more
What's the story with the grandchildren you mentioned, did he have children?
He did have children
My grandmother was a Hardin we are kin according to the elders of the family. And who hasn't wanted to shoot someone for snoring ,lol.
😂😆. Can't deny that.
Born in 1852
Hardin was a friend to my Taylor family during the Taylor-Sutton feud.
Wow that's awesome. He would be one of want on my side.
Talk about the sommers county West Virginia 1861 civil war
I'll have to look into that
I am struggling with the Wild Bill Hickok stories..
I believe Hickok was law enforcement in Abilene, Kansas.... but never Abilene, Texas.... this doesn't fit.
And you would be right. I slipped
Surprised there's no mention of his part in the The Sutton-Taylor feud.
I did read about that but had to keep the video from getting too long. Hated to leave it out.
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You did good. I didn't like the into and conclusions. But the info part very good.
Thank you so much
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Lol
You did great you should have went in to the store that is where the saloon was and stand right where he was shot it was cool
Didn't even think of that. Well, there is always a next time. Lol
Killing a man for snoring. The good old days
I love gun tricks, that guy was good.
Yes, very
That's Abilene, Kansas, not Abilene, Texas.
You are correct
You missed the killing of deputy Webb in commance Texas
I did. So much more about John Wesley that I could fit into a small video. Thank you so much for sharing.
I should think a little more about wives and kids would be in order. What would a Gunman's domestic life look like?
I think you have your Abilene s mixed up
Wild Bill Hickok was in Abilene Kansas not Texas
You are absolutely correct
Been there in 2006, pocked mocked face outlaw.
I have some relation to John Westley Hardin on my mother side of her family.
Oh wow. That's pretty cool
and then, Jack McCall stepped up behind Hickok and pulled out his Glock 19 and pointed it at Miss Kitty and ----------Huh, what ? Never mind.
Club of 42 years old
Abilene Kansas, not Texas
You are correct. My mistake.
Love john
Mage like page and I see somebody had to pull the race card and he never killed a man for snoring
Isn't "Gunslinger" a term invented by Hollywood?
Gosh, I'm not sure. Very possible I guess
Interesting. You are reading from a book I guess. Practice story telling, IMHO.
Very handsome guy, too bad he was a bad person.
In the young portrait of Hardin, he has the look of pure evil and hatred.