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UBERTI pays homage to the outlaw John Wesley Hardin with this TOP-BREAK

By LINAS CERNAUSKAS

John Wesley Hardin is considered an American Old West outlaw, gunfighter and controversial folk hero. Hardin often got into trouble with the law from an early age. He killed his first man at the age of 15, which he claimed to be in self-defense. By the age of 17, John Wesley Hardin had killed a dozen men and had a price on his head of $1,100. Between that age and his capture in 1877 by Texas Ranger Lieutenant John B. Armstrong, who got close enough to crack Hardin over the head with the barrel of his revolver and knock him unconscious, many others on both sides of the law had faced Hardin’s Colts and came up short. By 1877, at age 24, the Texas Rangers claimed he had killed 40…

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Guns of the Old West (Digital) - 1 Issue, Spring 2022

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