A lawless breed [electronic resource] : John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and violence in the Wild West / by Chuck Parsons and Norman Wayne Brown.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

First blood -- Gunfire in Hill County -- Mexico or Kansas? -- Shedding blood in Kansas -- The Texas State Police -- Capture and escape -- The end of Jack Helm -- Killing intensifies -- A "bully from Canada" -- Fighting Waller's Texas Rangers -- Leaving the Lone Star State -- Troubles in Florida -- "Texas, by God!" -- Hardin on trial -- Huntsville and punishment -- Dreams of a future -- Seeing Jane again -- A full pardon -- Attorney at law, J.W. Hardin -- Troubles in Pecos -- Troubles in El Paso -- "I'll meet you smoking" -- The youngest brother -- End of the gunfighters.

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