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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:05,467 Hardin: MY NAME IS JOHN WESLEY HARDIN, 2 00:00:05,467 --> 00:00:09,633 AND THIS IS MY TRUE STORY AS IT'S NEVER BEEN TOLD. 3 00:00:09,633 --> 00:00:11,433 JOHN WESLEY HARDIN WAS EASILY 4 00:00:11,433 --> 00:00:14,267 THE DEADLIEST GUNFIGHTER OF ALL TIME. 5 00:00:14,267 --> 00:00:15,433 [ GUNSHOT ] 6 00:00:15,433 --> 00:00:19,600 Bell: THAT BOY NEEDED TO BE INSTITUTIONALIZED. 7 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,533 HE'S A NARCISSIST. HE KILLS WITHOUT REMORSE. 8 00:00:25,567 --> 00:00:27,133 [ GUNSHOT ] 9 00:00:27,133 --> 00:00:29,267 Hardin: FROM MY EARLIEST DAYS, I FOUGHT EVERYONE 10 00:00:29,267 --> 00:00:32,233 WHO STOOD AGAINST ME AND MY WAY OF LIFE. 11 00:00:32,233 --> 00:00:35,367 Man: BELIEVES IN GOD AND BELIEVES IN THE GUN. 12 00:00:35,367 --> 00:00:38,000 WHAT HARDIN DID MOSTLY WAS KILL. 13 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:39,533 JOHN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? 14 00:00:44,133 --> 00:00:45,400 Man: PUTS YOUR HANDS WHERE WE CAN SEE 'EM! 15 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:46,800 Man #2: STICK YOUR HANDS UP, YOU SON OF A BITCH! 16 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,067 EVENING, GENTLEMEN. MR. SWAIN, IS IT? 17 00:00:50,067 --> 00:00:52,333 ALL RIGHT, HARDIN. TIME TO GO BACK TO TEXAS. 18 00:00:52,333 --> 00:00:54,900 A MAN-KILLER, A HUNTED FUGITIVE. 19 00:00:54,900 --> 00:00:59,633 SOME SAY THE WORST BAD MAN THAT TEXAS EVER PRODUCED, 20 00:00:59,633 --> 00:01:01,633 YET TO SOME HE WAS A HERO. 21 00:01:01,633 --> 00:01:03,867 ...TEXANS I'VE EVER SEEN! 22 00:01:03,867 --> 00:01:08,367 Hardin: I LEFT A TRAIL OF BLOOD ACROSS THE MIDWEST. 23 00:01:08,367 --> 00:01:12,067 MADE "WILD BILL" HICKOK WILT LIKE A DAISY. 24 00:01:12,067 --> 00:01:14,067 TAKE 'EM IF YOU DARE. 25 00:01:14,067 --> 00:01:17,200 AND GALVANIZED THE REBEL SPIRIT OF TEXAS. 26 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,900 [ GUNSHOTS ] 27 00:01:19,900 --> 00:01:22,867 I WAS ALWAYS ONE STEP AHEAD OF THE LAW. 28 00:01:22,867 --> 00:01:25,633 TEXAS, MY GOD. 29 00:01:25,633 --> 00:01:27,967 UNTIL THE DAY THE LAW CLOSED IN. 30 00:01:27,967 --> 00:01:29,300 [ GRUNTS ] 31 00:01:30,367 --> 00:01:33,367 -- Captions by VITAC -- www.vitac.com 32 00:01:33,367 --> 00:01:36,400 CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS 33 00:01:39,767 --> 00:01:42,067 [ GUNSHOT ] 34 00:01:48,967 --> 00:01:51,200 WAKE UP, HARDIN. 35 00:01:54,367 --> 00:01:57,267 Bell: LEGEND HAS IT THAT WHEN JOHN WESLEY HARDIN WAS BORN, 36 00:01:57,267 --> 00:02:00,067 THE MIDWIFE TOLD HIS FATHER THAT HE'S EITHER GONNA BE 37 00:02:00,067 --> 00:02:03,367 ONE OF THE GREATEST PEOPLE OF HIS AGE OR ONE OF THE WORST. 38 00:02:03,367 --> 00:02:06,300 AND SHE SAID, "HE'S EITHER GOING TO BE YOUR STAFF, 39 00:02:06,300 --> 00:02:09,067 OR HE'S GONNA BRING YOU SORROW TO YOUR GRAVE." 40 00:02:09,067 --> 00:02:14,500 AND, OF COURSE, HE BECAME THE WORST OF THE WEST. 41 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:17,667 HE IS ABSOLUTELY ONE OF THE DARKEST CHARACTERS 42 00:02:17,667 --> 00:02:19,667 THIS SIDE OF CHARLIE MANSON. 43 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,900 Hardin: I'VE BEEN ACCUSED OF KILLING OVER 40 MEN, 44 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:29,633 BUT I HAVE ZERO REGRETS. 45 00:02:29,633 --> 00:02:32,767 I NEVER KILLED ANYONE WHO DIDN'T NEED KILLING. 46 00:02:32,767 --> 00:02:37,100 Alexander: WHEN THERE WAS A CONFRONTATION WITH SOMEBODY, 47 00:02:37,100 --> 00:02:40,500 UNLIKE MOST PEOPLE, HE HAD NO RESERVATION 48 00:02:40,500 --> 00:02:43,967 ABOUT PULLING HIS GUN AND SHOOTING 'EM. 49 00:02:43,967 --> 00:02:46,733 HE JUST FLAT DIDN'T GIVE A DAMN, 50 00:02:46,733 --> 00:02:48,567 AND HE WAS GONNA LIVE HIS LIFE 51 00:02:48,567 --> 00:02:52,067 THE WAY HE WANTED TO LIVE IT REGARDLESS. 52 00:02:52,067 --> 00:02:54,700 AND IT COST HIM DEARLY IN THE END. 53 00:02:54,700 --> 00:02:57,633 Hardin: I'VE BEEN CAGED IN HUNTSVILLE PRISON 54 00:02:57,633 --> 00:03:03,667 FOR THE PAST 16 YEARS INSIDE THE NOTORIOUS WALLS UNIT. 55 00:03:03,667 --> 00:03:04,733 IT WAS MAMMOTH. 56 00:03:04,733 --> 00:03:06,667 IT HAD 25-FOOT WALLS AROUND IT, 57 00:03:06,667 --> 00:03:08,600 THERE WERE ABOUT 400 PRISONERS IN THERE. 58 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:09,933 THE CONDITIONS WERE TERRIBLE, 59 00:03:09,933 --> 00:03:11,867 AND THE GUARDS COULD GET AWAY WITH, REALLY, 60 00:03:11,867 --> 00:03:13,233 ANYTHING THEY WANTED TO DO. 61 00:03:13,233 --> 00:03:16,167 AND SO, BASICALLY, HE WAS PART OF A GROUP OF PRISONERS 62 00:03:16,167 --> 00:03:20,167 THAT WERE TREATED AS MAXIMUM-SECURITY THREATS. 63 00:03:22,467 --> 00:03:25,867 Hardin: THEY SAY WHAT DON'T KILL YOU MAKES YOU STRONGER. 64 00:03:25,867 --> 00:03:31,200 WELL, AFTER 16 YEARS ON THE CHAIN GANG, I MUST BE HERCULES. 65 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,567 I BELIEVE I'VE BECOME SOMETHING OF A FOLK HERO 66 00:03:34,567 --> 00:03:36,067 IN MY NATIVE TEXAS, 67 00:03:36,067 --> 00:03:38,733 AND I KNOW I WILL PROFIT HANDSOMELY 68 00:03:38,733 --> 00:03:44,167 FROM TELLING MY STORY, IF I EVER MAKE PAROLE. 69 00:03:52,367 --> 00:03:55,067 Roth: UNLIKE A LOT OF OTHER UNREPENTANT KILLERS, 70 00:03:55,067 --> 00:03:58,067 JOHN WESLEY HARDIN CAME FROM A GOOD FAMILY BACKGROUND. 71 00:03:58,067 --> 00:04:02,233 HIS FATHER WAS A PREACHER, AND HE ALSO STUDIED LAW. 72 00:04:02,233 --> 00:04:06,200 SO, HE'S A WALKING SET OF CONTRADICTIONS, REALLY. 73 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:08,267 THE NAME OF JOHN WESLEY HARDIN IS IRONIC, 74 00:04:08,267 --> 00:04:10,467 BECAUSE HE'S NAMED FOR JOHN WESLEY, 75 00:04:10,467 --> 00:04:12,700 THE FOUNDER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH. 76 00:04:12,700 --> 00:04:14,500 INSTEAD, HE TAKES THAT NAMESAKE 77 00:04:14,500 --> 00:04:18,667 AND GOES OFF ON A DIFFERENT PATH. 78 00:04:18,667 --> 00:04:20,433 TO UNDERSTAND JOHN WESLEY HARDIN, 79 00:04:20,433 --> 00:04:22,233 YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT TEXAS 80 00:04:22,233 --> 00:04:23,667 AND RECONSTRUCTION WAS LIKE. 81 00:04:26,267 --> 00:04:28,767 Alexander: HE WAS A PRODUCT OF THE OLD SOUTH, 82 00:04:28,767 --> 00:04:31,067 HE WAS BORN PRIOR TO THE CIVIL WAR 83 00:04:31,067 --> 00:04:34,067 AND HE HAD HIS CHILDHOOD THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR 84 00:04:34,067 --> 00:04:36,100 AND WAS INFLUENCED BY ALL OF THE THINGS 85 00:04:36,100 --> 00:04:37,200 THAT HE WAS HEARING. 86 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:39,667 TEXAS WAS A CONFEDERATE STATE, 87 00:04:39,667 --> 00:04:45,300 AND SO THAT'S THE WAY HE GREW UP. 88 00:04:45,300 --> 00:04:47,067 Hardin: I SAW ABRAHAM LINCOLN BURN 89 00:04:47,067 --> 00:04:49,400 AND SHOT TO PIECES IN EFFIGY SO MANY TIMES 90 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,167 THAT I USED TO BELIEVE HE WAS THE DEVIL INCARNATE. 91 00:04:52,167 --> 00:04:57,067 HE WAS WAGING A CRUEL AND RELENTLESS WAR ON THE SOUTH, 92 00:04:57,067 --> 00:05:01,300 TO ROB HER OF HER MOST SACRED RIGHTS. 93 00:05:06,133 --> 00:05:08,133 [ GUNSHOT ] 94 00:05:08,133 --> 00:05:11,467 I WAS A CRACK SHOT BY THE TIME I TURNED 12. 95 00:05:11,467 --> 00:05:13,633 [ GUNSHOTS ] 96 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,133 AND I TRIED EVERY CHANCE I GOT 97 00:05:19,133 --> 00:05:21,733 TO SNEAK AWAY AND JOIN THE REBELS. 98 00:05:21,733 --> 00:05:23,633 Man: JOHNNY. 99 00:05:23,633 --> 00:05:26,067 BUT I WANNA FIGHT, PA. 100 00:05:26,067 --> 00:05:27,467 YOU'RE TOO YOUNG. 101 00:05:27,467 --> 00:05:31,433 YOU WONDER IF HE HAD SERVED ONE, TWO OR THREE YEARS 102 00:05:31,433 --> 00:05:33,533 AS A SOLDIER ON THE BATTLEFIELD 103 00:05:33,533 --> 00:05:36,400 AND EXPERIENCED THE CHAOS OF THE BATTLE, 104 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:41,400 WOULD HE HAVE BECOME THE MAN-KILLER DURING THE 1870s. 105 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:45,167 THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF OTHER YOUNG MEN 106 00:05:45,167 --> 00:05:48,467 WHO GREW UP IN THE SAME SITUATION, 107 00:05:48,467 --> 00:05:50,467 THE SAME ENVIRONMENT, 108 00:05:50,467 --> 00:05:53,767 WHO DID NOT BECOME KILLERS OF MEN. 109 00:05:53,767 --> 00:05:59,100 JOHN WESLEY HARDIN HAD SOME DIFFERENT SPARK IN HIM, 110 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:01,633 CALL IT CHEMICAL IMBALANCE, 111 00:06:01,633 --> 00:06:06,533 SOME CAUSE CAUSED HIM TO BECOME MORE VIOLENT. 112 00:06:08,767 --> 00:06:09,967 Man: GET HIM, JOHN! COME ON! 113 00:06:09,967 --> 00:06:12,067 Man #2: COME ON NOW, BOY. WHOO! 114 00:06:12,067 --> 00:06:14,700 JOHN WESLEY HARDIN FIRST ADMITTED KILLING SOMEBODY 115 00:06:14,700 --> 00:06:16,067 WHEN HE WAS 15 YEARS OLD. 116 00:06:16,067 --> 00:06:19,067 Hardin: IT STARTED AS A WRESTLING MATCH. 117 00:06:19,067 --> 00:06:21,900 ME AND MY COUSIN AGAINST ONE OF MY UNCLE'S EX-SLAVES, 118 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:23,067 A FELLOW NAMED MAGE. 119 00:06:23,067 --> 00:06:25,067 COME ON. WHOOP SOME ASS. 120 00:06:25,067 --> 00:06:27,067 GET IN THERE. COME ON, JOHN WESLEY. 121 00:06:27,067 --> 00:06:28,733 COME ON, JOHN. 122 00:06:28,733 --> 00:06:30,400 GET IN THERE, JOHN WESLEY. GET IN THERE. 123 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:32,500 Hardin: HE WAS BIGGER, OF COURSE. 124 00:06:32,500 --> 00:06:34,900 BUT WE THOUGHT TOGETHER, WE'D TAKE HIM. 125 00:06:34,900 --> 00:06:36,800 Y'ALL DONE. 126 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:38,267 WINNER, MAGE. 127 00:06:38,267 --> 00:06:40,333 Boy: NICE ONE, MAGE. 128 00:06:40,333 --> 00:06:42,167 WHOO! 129 00:06:42,167 --> 00:06:44,167 Hardin: HE MADE ME LOOK INFERIOR, 130 00:06:44,167 --> 00:06:48,367 AND THERE WAS NO WAY I COULD LET THAT SLIDE. 131 00:06:51,667 --> 00:06:53,400 HARDIN REALLY TOOK OFFENSE 132 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:57,800 AT THE FACT THAT HE WAS BESTED BY A BLACK MAN. 133 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,400 THIS KIND OF STIRRED UP ALL OF THOSE VALUES 134 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,067 THAT HE HAD IN HIM. 135 00:07:01,067 --> 00:07:04,267 HE HAD A CERTAIN PERSONALITY WHERE HE HATED TO LOSE, 136 00:07:04,267 --> 00:07:05,967 AND WHAT BIGGER LOSER WAS THERE AT THIS TIME 137 00:07:05,967 --> 00:07:07,933 THAN THE CONFEDERACY. 138 00:07:07,933 --> 00:07:10,633 IF HE LOST, HE SAW THIS AS AN INSULT. 139 00:07:10,633 --> 00:07:13,933 HE DECIDED THAT HE WOULD ANSWER ANY TYPE OF THREAT 140 00:07:13,933 --> 00:07:16,733 TO THE SOUTHERN TRADITION WITH VIOLENCE. 141 00:07:19,833 --> 00:07:23,700 [ WHISTLING ] 142 00:07:32,133 --> 00:07:33,933 HEY, JOHN. 143 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:40,200 JOHN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? 144 00:08:03,133 --> 00:08:04,500 Parsons: IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 145 00:08:04,500 --> 00:08:09,167 HE MAKES IT SOUND LIKE HE DEFENDED HIMSELF AGAINST MAGE 146 00:08:09,167 --> 00:08:15,767 BECAUSE MAGE WAS GONNA BEAT HIM WITH A STICK. 147 00:08:15,767 --> 00:08:20,067 Hardin: THAT WAS THE FIRST MAN I EVER KILLED. 148 00:08:21,433 --> 00:08:24,533 MAGE LIVES LONG ENOUGH TO BE TAKEN BACK BY HIS FAMILY, 149 00:08:24,533 --> 00:08:27,767 AND HE GIVES HIS ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED. 150 00:08:27,767 --> 00:08:30,633 AND HE SAYS HE NEVER WENT AFTER HARDIN. 151 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,667 WHAT IS PROBABLY MORE LIKELY WAS AFTER WHAT HAPPENED, 152 00:08:37,667 --> 00:08:39,500 WAS THAT HE STALKED MAGE. 153 00:08:39,500 --> 00:08:41,067 AND THIS WOULD BE JUST, YOU KNOW, 154 00:08:41,067 --> 00:08:43,900 JOHN WESLEY HARDIN GETTING BACK FOR THIS PERCEIVED SLIGHT, 155 00:08:43,900 --> 00:08:46,100 AND KILLING HIM. 156 00:08:48,433 --> 00:08:51,233 PRAY WITH ME, SON. 157 00:08:51,233 --> 00:08:57,433 Parsons: REVEREND HARDIN WAS FEARFUL FOR HIS SON TO STAND TRIAL. 158 00:08:57,433 --> 00:09:02,333 HE FELT THAT UNDER THE CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION, 159 00:09:02,333 --> 00:09:05,867 NO WHITE PERSON COULD GET A FAIR TRIAL 160 00:09:05,867 --> 00:09:10,067 IF THEY HAD DONE ANY INJURY TO A BLACK PERSON. 161 00:09:10,067 --> 00:09:15,800 LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL. 162 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:17,700 Roth: WHILE MOST OF HIS NEIGHBORS 163 00:09:17,700 --> 00:09:19,600 WOULD HAVE SUPPORTED HIS ACTIONS, 164 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:21,767 THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, 165 00:09:21,767 --> 00:09:23,700 WHICH WERE IN THE HANDS OF THE UNIONISTS, 166 00:09:23,700 --> 00:09:25,567 WOULD SEE THIS AS A MURDER. 167 00:09:25,567 --> 00:09:28,433 AND THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE THAT HE COULD HANG. 168 00:09:36,067 --> 00:09:38,933 Hardin: I BECAME A FUGITIVE NOT FROM JUSTICE 169 00:09:38,933 --> 00:09:41,233 BUT FROM THE INJUSTICE AND MISRULE 170 00:09:41,233 --> 00:09:45,400 OF THOSE WHO HAD SUBJUGATED THE SOUTH. 171 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,833 I SOON LEARNED TO LIVE BY THE GUN, 172 00:09:47,833 --> 00:09:51,900 AND MAKE MY OWN LAW IN PLACES WHERE THERE WAS NONE. 173 00:09:51,900 --> 00:09:55,367 HE BEGAN TO GROW TO LIKE BEING IN GUNFIGHTS. 174 00:09:56,533 --> 00:09:58,700 I WOULDN'T DO THAT IF I WERE YOU. 175 00:09:58,700 --> 00:10:00,367 [ GUNSHOT ] 176 00:10:05,667 --> 00:10:08,033 HE WASN'T AFRAID OF ANYTHING. 177 00:10:08,033 --> 00:10:11,233 HE DIDN'T WORRY ABOUT DYING, HIMSELF, 178 00:10:11,233 --> 00:10:16,033 SO YOU CAN TAKE RISKS THAT A NORMAL PERSON WOULD NOT TAKE. 179 00:10:16,033 --> 00:10:20,400 HE WOULD SHOOT FIRST, ASK QUESTIONS LATER. 180 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:21,733 WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON IN HERE? 181 00:10:36,100 --> 00:10:39,933 WHEN HE SHOT SOMEBODY, HE RARELY WOUNDED HIM. 182 00:10:39,933 --> 00:10:41,933 ALMOST EVERY ONE OF THIS VICTIMS WAS SHOT THROUGH THE HEART 183 00:10:41,933 --> 00:10:45,667 OR THE HEAD OR BOTH. 184 00:10:49,533 --> 00:10:53,400 Hardin: MY FIRST ARREST CAME TWO YEARS AFTER I LEFT HOME. 185 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,533 I WAS JAILED IN LONGVIEW, TEXAS 186 00:10:55,533 --> 00:11:01,067 ON ONE COUNT OF FORCED THEFT AND FOUR COUNTS OF MURDER. 187 00:11:01,067 --> 00:11:03,200 THE TEXAS STATE POLICE WERE ORDERED 188 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,500 TO TAKE ME TO WACO FOR TRIAL. 189 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:08,900 HE GOT ALONG VERY WELL WITH HIS FELLOW INMATES. 190 00:11:08,900 --> 00:11:11,633 HE WAS SOMEBODY THAT YOU BECAME AN INSTANT FRIEND WITH. 191 00:11:11,633 --> 00:11:13,600 HE KNEW HOW TO MANIPULATE PEOPLE AS WELL. 192 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:15,867 HE WAS ABLE TO CAJOLE ONE OF THE FELLOW PRISONERS 193 00:11:15,867 --> 00:11:17,567 TO SMUGGLE IN A GUN TO HIM. 194 00:11:17,567 --> 00:11:23,267 FOR SOME REASON, TWO OF THEM LEFT HARDIN, THE PRISONER, 195 00:11:23,267 --> 00:11:26,067 WITH ONE STATE POLICEMAN. 196 00:11:28,633 --> 00:11:30,400 IN RECONSTRUCTION TEXAS, 197 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:33,067 FULLY ONE THIRD OF THE STATE POLICE 198 00:11:33,067 --> 00:11:37,567 WAS COMPRISED OF FREED SLAVES. 199 00:11:37,567 --> 00:11:39,867 Alexander: IT WAS JUST A BITTER PILL 200 00:11:39,867 --> 00:11:42,733 FOR A TEXAN AT THAT DAY AND TIME 201 00:11:42,733 --> 00:11:46,267 TO STAND IN ARREST BY A BLACK PERSON. 202 00:11:46,267 --> 00:11:52,400 Hardin: MY MOMENT CAME, AND I SEIZED IT. 203 00:11:57,900 --> 00:11:59,100 AFTER I ESCAPED, 204 00:11:59,100 --> 00:12:02,333 THE STATE ISSUED A $1,000 REWARD FOR MY CAPTURE, 205 00:12:02,333 --> 00:12:05,533 BUT I WAS DETERMINED TO MAKE SURE 206 00:12:05,533 --> 00:12:08,233 IT WOULD REMAIN UNCLAIMED. 207 00:12:08,233 --> 00:12:12,700 BY THE AGE OF 17, I HAD ENDED ALMOST THAT MANY LIVES. 208 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:14,867 EACH ONE DESERVED TO DIE, 209 00:12:14,867 --> 00:12:18,100 SEEING AS THEY ALL AIMED TO CHEAT ME 210 00:12:18,100 --> 00:12:19,467 OR TAKE AWAY MY FREEDOM. 211 00:12:19,467 --> 00:12:22,333 BUT I WAS JUST GETTING STARTED. 212 00:12:22,333 --> 00:12:25,533 SOON, THE ENTIRE FRONTIER WOULD KNOW AND FEAR 213 00:12:25,533 --> 00:12:29,367 THE NAME JOHN WESLEY HARDIN. 214 00:12:38,900 --> 00:12:41,700 [ GUNSHOTS ] 215 00:12:45,067 --> 00:12:46,533 [ GUNSHOT ] 216 00:12:47,967 --> 00:12:51,633 Hardin: IN 1872, I, JOHN WESLEY HARDIN, 217 00:12:51,633 --> 00:12:55,467 WAS ON THE RUN, WANTED FOR MULTIPLE MURDERS, 218 00:12:55,467 --> 00:12:57,867 INCLUDING A TEXAS STATE POLICE OFFICER. 219 00:12:57,867 --> 00:13:02,967 I HAD A $1,000 BOUNTY ON MY HEAD, BUT ONLY ON TEXAS SOIL. 220 00:13:04,633 --> 00:13:06,767 [ LAUGHTER ] 221 00:13:06,767 --> 00:13:09,933 YOU KNOW, I NEVER DID FIND THAT HORSE. 222 00:13:09,933 --> 00:13:13,600 Hardin: I NEEDED TO LAY LOW AND LEAVE THE STATE, 223 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,967 SO I FELL IN WITH MY COUSINS, THE CLEMENTS, 224 00:13:16,967 --> 00:13:20,367 WHO WERE HEADING NORTH FOR GREENER PASTURES. 225 00:13:20,367 --> 00:13:23,700 Lawrence: HE SEEMS TO HAVE A LIMITLESS NUMBER OF COUSINS, 226 00:13:23,700 --> 00:13:26,233 AND HE COULD ALWAYS GO AND HIDE OUT WITH THEM 227 00:13:26,233 --> 00:13:28,433 FOR A WHILE UNTIL THE HEAT BLOWS OVER. 228 00:13:28,433 --> 00:13:32,700 Parsons: THE CLEMENTS BROTHERS WERE GATHERING THEIR HERDS 229 00:13:32,700 --> 00:13:35,500 TO DRIVE TO THE MARKETS IN KANSAS, 230 00:13:35,500 --> 00:13:40,667 AND CONVINCED JOHN WESLEY, "WHY DON'T YOU JOIN UP WITH US? 231 00:13:40,667 --> 00:13:42,167 BECOME A COWBOY." 232 00:13:42,167 --> 00:13:45,633 Lawrence: THE CATTLE INDUSTRY IS REALLY BOOMING AFTER THE WAR 233 00:13:45,633 --> 00:13:48,100 BECAUSE LAND IN THE WEST IS SO CHEAP. 234 00:13:48,100 --> 00:13:51,667 THE RAILROADS DON'T COME INTO TEXAS, 235 00:13:51,667 --> 00:13:55,867 AS FAR AS CLEAR EAST/WEST ROUTES, UNTIL THE 1880s. 236 00:13:55,867 --> 00:13:57,867 THEY, THEREFORE, HAVE TO GO THIS LONG ROUTE 237 00:13:57,867 --> 00:14:02,933 UP ON THE CHISHOLM TRAIL. 238 00:14:02,933 --> 00:14:06,300 Hardin: THE CHISHOLM TRAIL BECAME MY ROAD TO FREEDOM, 239 00:14:06,300 --> 00:14:08,900 220 MILES OF LAWLESS LANDSCAPE, 240 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:11,900 BETWEEN THE CATTLE FARMS OF TEXAS 241 00:14:11,900 --> 00:14:15,367 AND THE BEEF MARKET IN ABILENE, KANSAS. 242 00:14:15,367 --> 00:14:18,500 IT WAS A PERFECT COVER FOR A MAN ON THE RUN. 243 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:22,333 Parsons: TYPICALLY, DURING THE CATTLE-DRIVING ERA, 244 00:14:22,333 --> 00:14:27,400 LAWMEN LEFT THE CATTLE DRIVES ALONE. 245 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,200 THEY DID NOT WANT TO GO MESS WITH 246 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:35,233 TRYING TO TAKE ONE HERDER OUT OF THE MIX, 247 00:14:35,233 --> 00:14:42,567 SO HARDIN BASICALLY LOST HIMSELF IN THE CATTLE DRIVE. 248 00:14:42,567 --> 00:14:45,167 IT WAS VERY DANGEROUS WORK FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS. 249 00:14:45,167 --> 00:14:46,967 JUST, PHYSICALLY, YOU ARE MOVING, 250 00:14:46,967 --> 00:14:48,900 PERHAPS, THOUSANDS OF HEAD OF CATTLE. 251 00:14:48,900 --> 00:14:50,867 COWBOYS COULD BE KILLED IN A STAMPEDE. 252 00:14:50,867 --> 00:14:54,200 THEY COULD BE KILLED BY NATIVE AMERICANS. 253 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:58,500 IT'S A PERFECT PLACE TO BE, THOUGH, IF YOU'RE AN OUTLAW, 254 00:14:58,500 --> 00:15:00,700 BECAUSE YOU'RE CONSTANTLY ON THE MOVE. 255 00:15:00,700 --> 00:15:03,433 IT'S VERY HARD FOR AUTHORITIES TO CATCH UP WITH YOU. 256 00:15:03,433 --> 00:15:06,533 Hardin: TRAIL LIFE SUITED ME JUST FINE. 257 00:15:06,533 --> 00:15:08,333 THE WORK COULD BE HARD, 258 00:15:08,333 --> 00:15:12,667 BUT I WAS FAR FROM THE REACH OF BOUNTY HUNTERS AND LAWMEN, 259 00:15:12,667 --> 00:15:15,133 AND I WAS FREE TO DO AS I PLEASED. 260 00:15:15,133 --> 00:15:18,300 THE RIDE TO ABILENE TAKES TWO TO THREE MONTHS, 261 00:15:18,300 --> 00:15:20,967 AT POINTS PASSING THROUGH TERRITORIES 262 00:15:20,967 --> 00:15:24,633 STILL CONTROLLED BY INDIANS. 263 00:15:34,667 --> 00:15:35,667 HEY, GIP. 264 00:15:35,667 --> 00:15:37,333 YEAH? 265 00:15:37,333 --> 00:15:38,433 GO SEE WHAT THEY WANT. 266 00:15:38,433 --> 00:15:41,100 YOU GOT IT. 267 00:15:48,333 --> 00:15:52,067 WHAT Y'ALL WANT? 268 00:15:52,067 --> 00:15:53,300 YOU. 269 00:15:58,067 --> 00:16:00,867 [ LAUGHS ] 270 00:16:02,067 --> 00:16:04,467 Roth: SOMETIMES THE INDIANS WOULD CHARGE A TAX. 271 00:16:04,467 --> 00:16:06,233 IT WAS YOUR CHOICE AS A CATTLEMAN, AS A COWBOY, 272 00:16:06,233 --> 00:16:07,500 TO PAY IT. 273 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:08,967 SOME PAID, SOME DIDN'T. 274 00:16:08,967 --> 00:16:11,800 NOT SURPRISINGLY, JOHN WESLEY HARDIN DID NOT. 275 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:15,333 THEY WANT 10 CENTS A HEAD FOR THAT CATTLE. 276 00:16:15,333 --> 00:16:20,067 10 CENTS, HUH? 277 00:16:20,067 --> 00:16:23,933 SO, GIVE IT TO 'EM, BOYS. 278 00:16:23,933 --> 00:16:26,300 Hardin: THE INDIANS THREATENED TO START KILLING CATTLE 279 00:16:26,300 --> 00:16:28,467 IF WE DIDN'T PAY UP. 280 00:16:28,467 --> 00:16:32,633 BUT WE SETTLED THAT ACCOUNT RIGHT QUICK. 281 00:16:32,633 --> 00:16:34,533 [ GUNSHOT ] 282 00:16:39,633 --> 00:16:42,067 WE MADE AN EXAMPLE OF THE LEADER, 283 00:16:42,067 --> 00:16:44,800 AND LET THE OTHERS LIVE TO SPREAD THE WORD. 284 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:52,433 Roth: JOHN WESLEY HARDIN, 285 00:16:52,433 --> 00:16:54,300 IN THE ODD WAY THAT HE PIECED THINGS TOGETHER, 286 00:16:54,300 --> 00:16:56,300 FIGURED, "I LEAVE YOU WITH A WARNING TO OTHERS 287 00:16:56,300 --> 00:16:57,833 THAT THIS IS WHAT AWAITS YOU." 288 00:16:57,833 --> 00:16:59,633 SO, THIS IS THE WAY HE SAW THINGS 289 00:16:59,633 --> 00:17:01,967 IN THE STRANGE WORLD OF JOHN WESLEY HARDIN. 290 00:17:01,967 --> 00:17:05,233 HERE'S THE 10 CENTS. 291 00:17:05,233 --> 00:17:07,633 [ LAUGHTER ] 292 00:17:07,633 --> 00:17:11,267 Lawrence: HE'S TURNING PEOPLE'S THREATS BACK ON THEM A LITTLE BIT. 293 00:17:11,267 --> 00:17:15,367 HE HAS KIND OF THIS FLAIR HE PUTS INTO STUFF. 294 00:17:15,367 --> 00:17:17,067 AND AGAIN, THAT'S THAT THE WHOLE IDEA 295 00:17:17,067 --> 00:17:20,233 THAT HE JUST THINKS HE'S SO SPECIAL. 296 00:17:24,367 --> 00:17:25,967 [ MAN GRUNTS ] 297 00:17:25,967 --> 00:17:27,100 [ MAN SHOUTS ] 298 00:17:27,100 --> 00:17:28,600 [ GUNSHOTS ] 299 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:30,067 Hardin: AFTER THE INDIANS, 300 00:17:30,067 --> 00:17:32,400 WE ENCOUNTERED ANOTHER BAND OF MISCREANTS, 301 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:37,533 THIS TIME MEXICAN COWBOYS INTENT ON SKIMMING FROM OUR HERD. 302 00:17:37,533 --> 00:17:39,600 WHAT THE HELL, JOHN? 303 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:43,467 DAMN LIAR SAID THAT WE DROVE OUR HERD INTO THEIRS. 304 00:17:43,467 --> 00:17:46,100 IT WAS THEM WHO DONE IT TO US, BOYS. 305 00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:51,700 WE BEST KEEP WATCH TONIGHT. 306 00:17:59,767 --> 00:18:03,067 I KILLED FIVE MEN THAT NIGHT. 307 00:18:09,167 --> 00:18:11,900 AFTER THAT, THE NAME JOHN WESLEY HARDIN 308 00:18:11,900 --> 00:18:14,100 WAS THE TALK OF THE TRAIL. 309 00:18:16,433 --> 00:18:19,433 [ LAUGHTER ] 310 00:18:19,433 --> 00:18:21,067 COWBOYS WHO'D HEARD OF ME 311 00:18:21,067 --> 00:18:24,500 WOULD STOP BY OUR CAMP AT NIGHT JUST TO SHAKE MY HAND. 312 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:26,767 HE'D ALREADY KILLED AT LEAST A DOZEN MEN 313 00:18:26,767 --> 00:18:28,433 BY THE TIME HE REACHED ABILENE. 314 00:18:28,433 --> 00:18:31,533 HE WAS VERY PROUD OF HIS REPUTATION. 315 00:18:31,533 --> 00:18:34,533 Hardin: AS WE GOT CLOSE TO ABILENE, 316 00:18:34,533 --> 00:18:38,233 THE TALK TURNED TO A CERTAIN LEGENDARY LAWMAN 317 00:18:38,233 --> 00:18:41,267 WHO MIGHT BE WAITING FOR US THERE. 318 00:18:41,267 --> 00:18:44,900 Lawrence: THEY KNEW WILD BILL HICKOK WAS THE MARSHAL THERE. 319 00:18:44,900 --> 00:18:46,867 Roth: WILD BILL HICKOK WAS A LEGEND IN THE WEST, 320 00:18:46,867 --> 00:18:48,900 AND SO THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT WHAT THEY WOULD DO 321 00:18:48,900 --> 00:18:52,067 WHEN THEY FOUND HIM. 322 00:18:52,067 --> 00:18:54,800 THEY WERE ALL THIRSTING FOR THIS POSSIBLE ENCOUNTER 323 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,467 BETWEEN WILD BILL HICKOK AND JOHN WESLEY HARDIN. 324 00:18:58,467 --> 00:19:01,900 YOU KNOW, JOHN, SHOOTING MEXICANS 325 00:19:01,900 --> 00:19:06,067 AIN'T THE SAME AS FACING UP TO BILL HICKOK. 326 00:19:06,067 --> 00:19:10,200 MAYBE NOT... 327 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:11,833 BUT IT'LL END THE SAME WAY. 328 00:19:11,833 --> 00:19:13,967 YEAH! [ LAUGHTER ] 329 00:19:13,967 --> 00:19:19,233 BOYS, I SAY WE PAINT THE TOWN OF ABILENE RED. 330 00:19:19,233 --> 00:19:21,433 [ LAUGHTER CONTINUES ] 331 00:19:36,133 --> 00:19:38,067 [ GUNSHOTS ] 332 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,133 [ GUNSHOT ] 333 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,933 Hardin: BY THE TIME MY COUSINS AND I ARRIVED IN ABILENE, KANSAS 334 00:19:50,933 --> 00:19:55,367 IN JUNE OF '71, MY NAME, JOHN WESLEY HARDIN, 335 00:19:55,367 --> 00:19:57,433 WAS UNIVERSALLY RECOGNIZED THERE, 336 00:19:57,433 --> 00:20:00,300 THANKS TO MY INFAMOUS RUN-INS WITH MEXICANS AND INDIANS 337 00:20:00,300 --> 00:20:03,000 ON MY WAY UP FROM TEXAS. 338 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,233 ABILENE WAS THE END OF THE CATTLE DRIVE, 339 00:20:05,233 --> 00:20:08,233 WHERE WE GOT PAID, GOT DRUNK, 340 00:20:08,233 --> 00:20:12,633 AND FOUND THOUSANDS OF OTHER ROWDY COWBOYS DOING THE SAME. 341 00:20:14,367 --> 00:20:16,067 THESE GUYS HAD NEVER SEEN PAYDAYS LIKE THIS, 342 00:20:16,067 --> 00:20:17,100 THESE COWBOYS. 343 00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:18,300 AND AS SOON AS THEY GOT TO TOWN -- 344 00:20:18,300 --> 00:20:19,867 THEY'D BEEN ON THE TRAIL FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS, 345 00:20:19,867 --> 00:20:21,200 IN SOME CASES, 346 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,533 AND THEY WERE READY, REALLY, TO, YOU KNOW, GO CRAZY. 347 00:20:24,533 --> 00:20:27,433 Bell: YOU HAVE TEXAS CONFEDERATES -- EX-CONFEDERATES, 348 00:20:27,433 --> 00:20:30,333 COMING UP THE TRAIL AND LANDING IN KANSAS COW TOWNS, 349 00:20:30,333 --> 00:20:33,000 WHERE MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO OWNED THE BUILDINGS 350 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,900 AND RAN THE PLACES WERE YANKEES. 351 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:38,833 THAT'S JUST A RECIPE FOR FISTICUFFS, IF NOT MORE. 352 00:20:38,833 --> 00:20:42,500 Woman: HEY, HUSH UP, Y'ALL. YOU'RE ABOUT TO SEE SOMETHING. 353 00:20:48,433 --> 00:20:51,967 Hardin: ABILENE HAD JUST HIRED A NEW MARSHAL TO HELP KEEP THE PEACE. 354 00:20:54,033 --> 00:20:56,200 HE HAD A NAME WE ALL KNEW... 355 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:57,733 WHOO. GO BILL! 356 00:20:57,733 --> 00:21:02,567 ...AND A LEGEND WE WERE EAGER TO PUT TO THE TEST. 357 00:21:02,567 --> 00:21:04,367 HICKOK WAS AN INCREDIBLE MAN OF ACTION, 358 00:21:04,367 --> 00:21:07,633 AND HE WAS ENGAGED IN REMARKABLE DERRING-DO 359 00:21:07,633 --> 00:21:12,367 DURING THE PERIOD RIGHT AROUND THE CIVIL WAR. 360 00:21:12,367 --> 00:21:14,267 Gomber: WILD BILL LOOKED THE PART. 361 00:21:14,267 --> 00:21:15,600 HE HAD LONG, FLOWING HAIR. 362 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:16,933 HE WAS TALL AND HANDSOME. 363 00:21:16,933 --> 00:21:20,200 EVERYBODY WAS IMPRESSED BY WILD BILL HICKOK. 364 00:21:23,967 --> 00:21:27,433 Hutton: AND, OF COURSE, BECAUSE HE HAD A REPUTATION AS A MAN-KILLER. 365 00:21:27,433 --> 00:21:29,100 AND BECAUSE HE WAS ON THE FRONTIER 366 00:21:29,100 --> 00:21:30,633 IN VERY DANGEROUS COMMUNITIES, 367 00:21:30,633 --> 00:21:32,900 HE WAS CONSTANTLY BEING CHALLENGED. 368 00:21:44,100 --> 00:21:46,233 Hardin: A SALOON OWNER NAMED PHIL COE 369 00:21:46,233 --> 00:21:47,900 HAD A GRUDGE AGAINST WILD BILL. 370 00:21:47,900 --> 00:21:51,067 COE KNEW MY REPUTATION, OF COURSE, 371 00:21:51,067 --> 00:21:54,267 SO HE ASKED ME TO SOLVE HIS PROBLEM. 372 00:21:54,267 --> 00:21:58,433 CAN'T HAVE WILD BILL COMING IN HERE. 373 00:21:58,433 --> 00:22:00,533 I'M TIRED OF IT. WON'T DO. 374 00:22:03,700 --> 00:22:06,733 I AIN'T DOING ANYBODY'S KILLING NOW EXCEPT MY OWN. 375 00:22:06,733 --> 00:22:12,467 THINK ABOUT IT, JOHN. 376 00:22:12,467 --> 00:22:15,800 WE'LL MAKE IT WORTH YOUR WHILE. 377 00:22:19,533 --> 00:22:23,833 IF WILD BILL NEEDS KILLING, WHY DON'T YOU KILL HIM YOURSELF? 378 00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:33,367 NOW, I'D HAVE BEEN HAPPY TO PUT HICKOK IN THE GROUND, 379 00:22:33,367 --> 00:22:37,867 BUT I'M NOT ONE TO DO ANOTHER MAN'S BIDDING. 380 00:22:37,867 --> 00:22:41,233 JOHN WESLEY HARDIN WAS VERY PROUD OF HIS REPUTATION 381 00:22:41,233 --> 00:22:42,367 AS A TOUGH GUY, 382 00:22:42,367 --> 00:22:45,233 BUT HE SEEMED TO BE IN AWE OF HICKOK. 383 00:22:45,233 --> 00:22:47,300 THEY MET ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. 384 00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:50,067 SHE WAS UGLIER THAN A THREE-EYED FROG. 385 00:22:50,067 --> 00:22:51,733 MAN. 386 00:22:51,733 --> 00:22:53,633 Roth: THERE WAS A LAW THAT WAS ENFORCED 387 00:22:53,633 --> 00:22:55,700 THAT YOU COULDN'T WEAR YOUR GUNS INTO TOWN, 388 00:22:55,700 --> 00:23:00,367 AND JOHN WESLEY HARDIN REFUSED TO GO ALONG WITH THIS. 389 00:23:00,367 --> 00:23:02,600 I THINK HE WAS JUST TRYING TO GET A RISE OUT OF HICKOK 390 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:03,667 TO SEE WHAT HE WOULD DO. 391 00:23:06,367 --> 00:23:07,600 YOU DO KNOW THERE'S AN ORDINANCE 392 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:11,133 AGAINST GOING ABOUT ARMED, DON'T YOU? 393 00:23:11,133 --> 00:23:14,267 LET'S HAVE 'EM. 394 00:23:14,267 --> 00:23:15,867 AS HE WAS REACHING FOR MY PISTOLS, 395 00:23:15,867 --> 00:23:17,900 I REVERSED AND WHIRLED 'EM UP OVER ON HIM, 396 00:23:17,900 --> 00:23:23,800 MUZZLES IN HIS FACE, AND SPRANG BACK AT THE SAME TIME. 397 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,133 Parsons: IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 398 00:23:26,133 --> 00:23:29,433 HE WRITES WHERE HE PULLS HIS PISTOLS OUT 399 00:23:29,433 --> 00:23:34,400 TO HAND OVER TO HICKOK AND THEN FLIPS THEM IN SUCH A WAY 400 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,933 THAT HE NOW COVERS HICKOK. 401 00:23:36,933 --> 00:23:40,600 WHAT WE WOULD CALL THE ROAD AGENT'S SPIN, 402 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,233 WHERE HE GOT THE DROP ON WILD BILL. 403 00:23:43,233 --> 00:23:47,900 TAKE 'EM IF YOU DARE, LONG-HAIRED SCOUNDREL. 404 00:23:47,900 --> 00:23:52,100 AND WILD BILL WILTED. 405 00:23:52,100 --> 00:23:56,267 WHAT DO YOU SAY WE, UH, COMPROMISE ON THIS MATTER, 406 00:23:56,267 --> 00:23:58,433 AND I WILL BE YOUR FRIEND. 407 00:23:58,433 --> 00:23:59,900 AND TO CELEBRATE OUR FRIENDSHIP, 408 00:23:59,900 --> 00:24:03,767 ALLOW ME TO BUY YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS A DRINK. 409 00:24:10,367 --> 00:24:15,067 IT'S A GREAT STORY OF TWO VERY FAMOUS WESTERN CHARACTERS. 410 00:24:15,067 --> 00:24:18,400 IT MIGHT WELL, THOUGH, HAVE ENDED IN ONE OF THEM BEING DEAD. 411 00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:22,300 Hardin: I WAS HAVING SUCH A GOOD TIME IN ABILENE, 412 00:24:22,300 --> 00:24:25,600 I DIDN'T KILL ANOTHER MAN THERE FOR ALMOST A MONTH. 413 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,133 BUT NO HONEYMOON LASTS FOREVER. 414 00:24:34,300 --> 00:24:38,633 IS IT TRUE YOU KILLED SEVEN MEN JUST FOR SNORING, JOHN? 415 00:24:38,633 --> 00:24:42,367 OH, THERE'S LOTS OF LIES TOLD ABOUT ME. 416 00:24:46,933 --> 00:24:52,200 TRUTH IS, I ONLY KILLED ONE MAN FOR SNORING. 417 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:56,800 [ SNORING ] 418 00:24:59,367 --> 00:25:03,233 Parsons: ONE NIGHT, HE AND ONE OF THE CLEMENTS BROTHERS, 419 00:25:03,233 --> 00:25:06,600 THEY'D PROBABLY BEEN DRINKING ABILENE WHISKEY, 420 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,567 AND THE MAN NEXT DOOR IS SNORING. 421 00:25:09,567 --> 00:25:12,900 Roth: JOHN WESLEY HARDIN, OF COURSE, HAS VERY POOR IMPULSE CONTROL, 422 00:25:12,900 --> 00:25:14,800 AND SO, IN ORDER TO SHUT THIS GUY UP, 423 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,967 HE DECIDED TO FIRE A COUPLE OF WARNING SHOTS 424 00:25:16,967 --> 00:25:19,300 THROUGH THE VERY THIN WALLS THAT SEPARATED THEM. 425 00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:23,267 [ GUNSHOTS ] 426 00:25:23,267 --> 00:25:25,867 AND THEN IT WAS DEAD SILENCE. 427 00:25:30,233 --> 00:25:33,433 JOHN, HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND, MAN? 428 00:25:33,433 --> 00:25:37,367 HE WAS KEEPING ME UP. 429 00:25:37,367 --> 00:25:40,433 [ FOOTSTEPS APPROACH, DOOR OPENS ] 430 00:25:40,433 --> 00:25:42,600 [ WOMAN CRIES ] 431 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,600 WILD BILL HICKOK'S GETTING US NOW FOR SURE. 432 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,933 YEP. 433 00:25:46,933 --> 00:25:48,433 DO YOU EVER KNOW WHEN TO CALM DOWN? 434 00:25:48,433 --> 00:25:51,233 NOT NOW, JOHN. NOT NOW. 435 00:25:53,767 --> 00:25:55,533 Roth: KNOWING WILD BILL HICKOK, 436 00:25:55,533 --> 00:25:58,100 HE KNEW THAT THE BETTER PART OF VALOR WAS TO FLEE. 437 00:25:58,100 --> 00:26:04,067 Hutton: SO, HE SKIPPED OUT OF ABILENE IN HIS NIGHTSHIRT. 438 00:26:04,067 --> 00:26:06,733 GIP, FORGOT YOUR DAMN CLOTHES! 439 00:26:06,733 --> 00:26:10,733 Hardin: AND JUST LIKE, I WAS ON THE RUN AGAIN. 440 00:26:10,733 --> 00:26:14,600 BUT IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE TROUBLE CAUGHT UP. 441 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:18,100 BACK HOME IN TEXAS, IT WAS I WHO TOOK A BULLET, 442 00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:21,433 FROM THE GUN OF A NO-GOOD CHEATING CARD SHARK 443 00:26:21,433 --> 00:26:23,533 BY THE NAME OF PHIL SUBLETT. 444 00:26:27,533 --> 00:26:29,467 Roth: JOHN WESLEY HARDIN LOST, 445 00:26:29,467 --> 00:26:33,267 AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN JOHN WESLEY HARDIN LOSES. 446 00:26:33,267 --> 00:26:37,200 THEY GET INTO THIS DISAGREEMENT, HARDIN SLAPS PHIL SUBLETT, 447 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,067 KIND OF PUSHES HIM AROUND. 448 00:26:39,067 --> 00:26:43,567 Hardin: YOU CAN GUESS BY NOW HOW I TRIED TO SETTLE THE SCORE, 449 00:26:43,567 --> 00:26:47,067 BUT THAT SON OF A BITCH PUMPED ME FULL OF BUCKSHOT, 450 00:26:47,067 --> 00:26:50,433 AND THEN TURNED TAIL AND RAN. 451 00:26:50,433 --> 00:26:54,500 Lawrence: HE HITS HARDIN THE SIDE, 452 00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:57,733 AND SOME OF THE SHOTGUN PELLETS END UP NICKING HIS KIDNEYS. 453 00:26:57,733 --> 00:26:59,433 [ GRUNTS ] 454 00:27:01,167 --> 00:27:06,533 IT LOOKED, IN FACT, FOR A LITTLE WHILE, AS IF HE MIGHT DIE. 455 00:27:09,533 --> 00:27:13,300 Hardin: I WAS ALIVE, BUT TOO WEAK TO KEEP RUNNING. 456 00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:15,833 AND THE LAW WAS RIGHT ON MY HEELS. 457 00:27:21,300 --> 00:27:24,067 SO I TURNED MYSELF IN TO A FRIENDLY SHERIFF, 458 00:27:24,067 --> 00:27:26,933 WHO WAS HAPPY TO COLLECT THE BOUNTY ON MY HEAD 459 00:27:26,933 --> 00:27:30,167 AND SPLIT IT WITH ME. 460 00:27:30,167 --> 00:27:32,533 HIS CRONIES ALSO HELPED ME ESCAPE, 461 00:27:32,533 --> 00:27:35,967 LOOKING THE OTHER WAY WHEN MY COUSIN SMUGGLED IN A SAW 462 00:27:35,967 --> 00:27:39,367 SO I COULD CUT MY WAY THROUGH THE WINDOW BARS. 463 00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:48,533 ONCE AGAIN, I WAS IN CONTROL OF MY OWN DESTINY. 464 00:27:48,533 --> 00:27:51,167 I COULD DO ANYTHING. 465 00:27:51,167 --> 00:27:53,767 I WAS ABOVE THE LAW. 466 00:27:53,767 --> 00:27:56,300 I THOUGHT NOTHING AND NO ONE 467 00:27:56,300 --> 00:27:59,733 COULD BRING DOWN JOHN WESLEY HARDIN. 468 00:27:59,733 --> 00:28:02,567 BUT THAT WAS BEFORE THE RANGERS CAME CALLING, 469 00:28:02,567 --> 00:28:05,067 AND MADE ME THE TARGET 470 00:28:05,067 --> 00:28:09,600 OF THE BIGGEST MANHUNT IN TEXAS HISTORY. 471 00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:20,200 [ GUNSHOTS ] 472 00:28:24,300 --> 00:28:26,067 [ GUNSHOT ] 473 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:34,100 Hardin: MAY 26th OF 1874 WAS MY 21st BIRTHDAY. 474 00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:37,500 I HAD PLENTY TO CELEBRATE. 475 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:40,767 I'D ESCAPED THE LAW YET AGAIN, 476 00:28:40,767 --> 00:28:46,667 AND FOUND REFUGE AMONG FRIENDS AND FAMILY UP IN COMANCHE. 477 00:28:46,667 --> 00:28:51,067 Y'ALL REMEMBER THAT LITTLE MUSKRAT-LOOKING BARKEEP? 478 00:28:51,067 --> 00:28:53,667 Roth: HE WAS LUCKY HE HAD THIS WHOLE TRAIL OF RELATIVES 479 00:28:53,667 --> 00:28:55,933 ACROSS PARTS OF THE SOUTH AND PARTS OF TEXAS 480 00:28:55,933 --> 00:28:58,700 THAT HE COULD STAY WITH FROM TIME TO TIME 481 00:28:58,700 --> 00:29:00,167 THAT WOULD HIDE HIM. 482 00:29:00,167 --> 00:29:02,567 SO, I SOLD A MAN A HORSE THE OTHER DAY. 483 00:29:02,567 --> 00:29:03,900 Man: YEAH. DRUNK. 484 00:29:03,900 --> 00:29:06,067 AND I DON'T ME, I MEAN THE HORSE. 485 00:29:06,067 --> 00:29:09,233 Hardin: BUT THIS WOULD PROVE TO BE THE LAST BIRTHDAY 486 00:29:09,233 --> 00:29:12,233 I SHARED WITH MY KIN, BECAUSE THE NEXT MORNING, 487 00:29:12,233 --> 00:29:18,933 I WAS THE TARGET OF THE LARGEST MANHUNT IN TEXAS HISTORY. 488 00:29:18,933 --> 00:29:21,833 I'D COME BACK HOME WITH THE TAYLOR BOYS, 489 00:29:21,833 --> 00:29:25,067 WHOSE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE I'D BEEN A PART OF 490 00:29:25,067 --> 00:29:26,667 FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS. 491 00:29:26,667 --> 00:29:29,433 AND THEY PAID ME WELL TO KEEP THE NAME 492 00:29:29,433 --> 00:29:31,933 JOHN WESLEY HARDIN ON THEIR SIDE. 493 00:29:31,933 --> 00:29:35,467 WE HAD NO TROUBLE STAYING AHEAD OF THE LAW, AT FIRST. 494 00:29:35,467 --> 00:29:38,767 BUT THAT CHANGED WHEN A GROUP OF CATTLE RANCHERS, 495 00:29:38,767 --> 00:29:40,400 WHOSE HERDS WE'D BEEN STEALING FROM, 496 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:45,533 RESOLVED TO BREAK UP OUR GANG ONCE AND FOR ALL. 497 00:29:45,533 --> 00:29:48,367 DEPUTY CHARLES WEBB WAS ONE OF THE POOR SOULS 498 00:29:48,367 --> 00:29:50,733 CHARGED WITH CARRYING OUT THE ORDER. 499 00:29:50,733 --> 00:29:53,067 [ LAUGHTER ] 500 00:29:53,067 --> 00:29:54,067 JOHN, JOHN. 501 00:29:54,067 --> 00:29:56,100 2:00. 2:00. 502 00:29:56,100 --> 00:29:58,667 Roth: WEBB HAD A VERY GOOD REPUTATION IN THE COMMUNITY. 503 00:29:58,667 --> 00:30:00,500 HE WAS AN UPRIGHT, HONEST GUY. 504 00:30:00,500 --> 00:30:03,933 HE DIDN'T SEEM TO BE INVOLVED IN ANY TYPE OF CORRUPTION, 505 00:30:03,933 --> 00:30:05,533 AND JOHN WESLEY HARDIN HAD A FEELING 506 00:30:05,533 --> 00:30:09,000 THAT THIS GUY WAS LOOKING FOR HIM. 507 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,200 HARDIN WAS WITH A GROUP OF FRIENDS. 508 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,500 THEY'D BEEN DRINKING ALL DAY. 509 00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:16,500 AND WEBB CAME WALKING UP WITH ONE HAND BEHIND HIS BACK. 510 00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:19,367 WHAT YOU GOT BEHIND YOUR BACK? 511 00:30:19,367 --> 00:30:22,333 AH, JUST THIS. 512 00:30:26,833 --> 00:30:29,367 DEPUTY WEBB, RIGHT? 513 00:30:29,367 --> 00:30:33,433 YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT. 514 00:30:33,433 --> 00:30:36,500 HAVE YOU ANY PAPERS FOR MY ARREST? 515 00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:39,700 I DON'T KNOW YOU. 516 00:30:39,700 --> 00:30:41,233 Lawrence: WEBB BACKS AWAY. 517 00:30:41,233 --> 00:30:43,600 HE DIDN'T COME TO TOWN FOR ANY TROUBLE, 518 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,567 AND HE TRIES TO EXTRACT HIMSELF FROM THE SITUATION. 519 00:30:46,567 --> 00:30:48,867 [ LIGHT LAUGHTER ] 520 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:57,000 THE NAME'S JOHN WESLEY HARDIN. 521 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,267 WELL, UH, NOW I KNOW YA, 522 00:31:01,267 --> 00:31:04,733 BUT I AIN'T GOT NO PAPERS FOR YOUR ARREST. 523 00:31:04,733 --> 00:31:08,700 [ CHUCKLES ] 524 00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:14,067 WELL, I'VE BEEN INFORMED THAT THE SHERIFF OF BROWN COUNTY 525 00:31:14,067 --> 00:31:16,967 IS SEEKING MY ARREST. 526 00:31:20,300 --> 00:31:22,133 THE GUNS WENT OFF AS ONE. 527 00:31:22,133 --> 00:31:24,433 Gomber: WEBB'S BULLET HIT HARDIN IN THE SIDE. 528 00:31:24,433 --> 00:31:27,867 AND THEN HARDIN AND HIS FRIENDS OPEN UP. 529 00:31:30,867 --> 00:31:32,733 Gomber: AS WEBB WENT DOWN, 530 00:31:32,733 --> 00:31:34,700 HARDIN'S BUDDIES PUMP MORE BULLETS INTO HIM, 531 00:31:34,700 --> 00:31:36,433 SO HE WAS DEAD WHEN HE HIT THE FLOOR. 532 00:31:36,433 --> 00:31:40,267 CHARLIE WEBB DROPPED TO THE GROUND 533 00:31:40,267 --> 00:31:43,200 WEIGHING A LOT MORE THAN HE DID IN LIFE, 534 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,433 BECAUSE HE WAS FILLED WITH LEAD. 535 00:31:45,433 --> 00:31:47,967 Hardin: I DIDN'T KNOW IT AT THE TIME, 536 00:31:47,967 --> 00:31:51,800 BUT THAT WAS THE KILLING THAT DID ME IN. 537 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,767 Man: JOHN, YOU JUST SHOT A GOOD MAN. 538 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,833 YOU'RE GONNA BURN IN HELL! 539 00:32:00,833 --> 00:32:03,500 Man #2: COME ON, BOYS. LET'S GO. GO, GO. 540 00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:13,900 THAT WAS THE FIRECRACKER THAT BLEW UP ON COMPLACENCY. 541 00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:15,267 A LOT OF PEOPLE GENERALLY FELT 542 00:32:15,267 --> 00:32:17,167 THAT HARDIN NEEDED TO BE MADE TO BE PAY 543 00:32:17,167 --> 00:32:18,633 FOR THE KILLING OF CHARLIE WEBB. 544 00:32:18,633 --> 00:32:20,833 HARDIN DOESN'T REALIZE THAT THE WIND'S BLOWING 545 00:32:20,833 --> 00:32:22,833 IN A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENT DIRECTION. 546 00:32:22,833 --> 00:32:27,300 PEOPLE WERE NOT GOING TO STAND FOR THE LEVEL OF VIOLENCE 547 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:29,567 THAT HE WAS USED TO ANYMORE. 548 00:32:29,567 --> 00:32:33,800 Hardin: BY THIS TIME, THE OCCUPYING YANKEE FORCES 549 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,900 HAD PULLED OUT OF TEXAS. 550 00:32:35,900 --> 00:32:39,800 THERE WAS EVEN A REBEL BACK IN THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION, 551 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,500 RICHARD COKE, A FORMER CONFEDERATE. 552 00:32:42,500 --> 00:32:45,200 SO, PEOPLE STARTED TO LOSE THEIR STOMACH 553 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:46,967 FOR VIOLENCE AND REBELLION, 554 00:32:46,967 --> 00:32:50,967 AND CONSEQUENTLY, THEIR FONDNESS FOR MEN LIKE ME, 555 00:32:50,967 --> 00:32:53,067 WHO LIVE BY OUR OWN LAWS. 556 00:32:53,067 --> 00:32:55,333 TEXAS WAS MOVING TOWARDS, YOU KNOW, 557 00:32:55,333 --> 00:32:57,700 MODERNIZATION AND PUBLIC ORDER, 558 00:32:57,700 --> 00:33:00,900 INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THINGS LIKE THIS, 559 00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:05,733 BEING DRAWN INTO THE NATIONAL ECONOMY. 560 00:33:05,733 --> 00:33:07,433 AND PEOPLE LIKE JOHN WESLEY HARDIN 561 00:33:07,433 --> 00:33:09,867 WERE A DETRIMENT TO THIS. 562 00:33:09,867 --> 00:33:13,433 THEIR POSITION AS OUTLAWS DEFENDING THE CONFEDERACY 563 00:33:13,433 --> 00:33:15,133 REALLY WAS A MOOT POINT. 564 00:33:15,133 --> 00:33:16,700 Lawrence: HE CAN KIND OF GET AWAY WITH IT. 565 00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:20,467 HE CAN SPIN IT AS HIM STRIKING BACK AGAINST YANKEES. 566 00:33:20,467 --> 00:33:23,133 WELL, NOW THE WAR HAS BEEN OVER FOR NEARLY 10 YEARS. 567 00:33:23,133 --> 00:33:25,067 HOW LONG ARE WE GONNA GO AFTER YANKEES? 568 00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:32,400 Parsons: GOVERNOR COKE CREATES THE FRONTIER BATTALION, 569 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,867 WHICH IS WHAT WE KNOW AS THE TEXAS RANGERS. 570 00:33:35,867 --> 00:33:38,933 Alexander: THE RANGERS GET CALLED IN. 571 00:33:38,933 --> 00:33:43,567 THEY STARTED BEATING THE BRUSH FOR JOHN WESLEY HARDIN. 572 00:33:43,567 --> 00:33:48,100 HARDIN REALIZED THEN THAT HE WAS GONNA HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. 573 00:33:48,100 --> 00:33:52,267 HE WAS BEING CHASED LIKE A WET RAT ALL OVER THE PLACE. 574 00:33:57,067 --> 00:33:58,700 Hardin: I HAD SPENT MOST OF MY LIFE 575 00:33:58,700 --> 00:34:00,900 RUNNING FROM ONE LAWMAN OR ANOTHER, 576 00:34:00,900 --> 00:34:02,533 AND NEVER THOUGHT MUCH OF IT. 577 00:34:02,533 --> 00:34:06,867 BUT NOW, I WAS TRULY HUNTED. 578 00:34:12,467 --> 00:34:19,633 Parsons: HE HAD, BY NOW, A $4,000 REWARD OFFERED FOR HIM, 579 00:34:19,633 --> 00:34:23,333 AND IN THE 1870s, THIS WAS A HUGE AMOUNT. 580 00:34:23,333 --> 00:34:26,333 Hardin: TEXAS RANGERS, BOUNTY HUNTERS, AND PINKERTONS 581 00:34:26,333 --> 00:34:31,233 WERE ALL ON MY TAIL, EAGER TO CASH IN ON MY CAPTURE. 582 00:34:31,233 --> 00:34:34,067 BUT I STAYED ONE STEP AHEAD OF THEM ALL. 583 00:34:37,667 --> 00:34:42,067 Alexander: NOBODY KNEW WHERE JOHN WESLEY HARDIN WAS. 584 00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:53,567 Hardin: AND WHEN THE BASTARDS COULDN'T CATCH ME, 585 00:34:53,567 --> 00:34:57,333 THEY WENT AFTER MY FLESH AND BLOOD. 586 00:34:57,333 --> 00:35:00,333 Roth: THE SAD THING ABOUT ALL OF THIS IS IN THE AFTERMATH, 587 00:35:00,333 --> 00:35:02,667 HIS BROTHER, WHO WAS LIVING NEARBY, 588 00:35:02,667 --> 00:35:04,300 JOSEPH, HIS OLDER BROTHER, 589 00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:06,567 WHO WAS A LAWYER AND HAD AN OFFICE IN TOWN, 590 00:35:06,567 --> 00:35:10,600 AND TWO OF HIS COUSINS, WERE ARRESTED AND PUT INTO JAIL. 591 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,467 AND THE MOB EVENTUALLY WOULD TAKE OUT 592 00:35:13,467 --> 00:35:15,067 THESE THREE INDIVIDUALS AND HANG THEM. 593 00:35:16,733 --> 00:35:17,733 HANG THEM! 594 00:35:17,733 --> 00:35:19,867 YOU BURN IN HELL! 595 00:35:19,867 --> 00:35:21,200 ENJOY HELL. 596 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:22,267 BURN! 597 00:35:22,267 --> 00:35:23,267 BURN! 598 00:35:23,267 --> 00:35:24,367 BURN! 599 00:35:24,367 --> 00:35:25,833 BURN! 600 00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:35,567 Roth: JOHN WESLEY HARDIN DOESN'T SAY A WHOLE LOT ABOUT THIS. 601 00:35:35,567 --> 00:35:37,533 YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T HEAR ABOUT THE GUILT OR THE REMORSE. 602 00:35:37,533 --> 00:35:40,700 YOU GOT TO BE SURE THAT HE'S, YOU KNOW, REALLY SAD 603 00:35:40,700 --> 00:35:43,833 BECAUSE HE WAS VERY TIGHT WITH EVERYBODY IN HIS FAMILY. 604 00:35:43,833 --> 00:35:46,900 Lawrence: HARDIN CERTAINLY REALIZED THAT COULD BE HIM. 605 00:35:46,900 --> 00:35:48,367 HE NEEDED TO GET OUT OF THE STATE. 606 00:35:48,367 --> 00:35:50,067 IT WAS BECOMING TOO DANGEROUS FOR HIM. 607 00:35:50,067 --> 00:35:51,700 HE'S BEING PURSUED RELENTLESSLY. 608 00:35:54,267 --> 00:35:57,667 Hardin: I THOUGHT IF I HID OUT IN FLORIDA FOR A WHILE, 609 00:35:57,667 --> 00:36:00,833 THE HUNT WOULD DIE DOWN AND I COULD GO ABOUT LIVING. 610 00:36:00,833 --> 00:36:03,067 BUT IT SEEMS I MAY HAVE UNDERESTIMATED 611 00:36:03,067 --> 00:36:08,333 THE RESOLVE AND THE RESOURCEFULNESS OF MY PURSUERS. 612 00:36:08,333 --> 00:36:14,867 Gomber: HE WROTE A LETTER TO HIS FAMILY BACK IN TEXAS. 613 00:36:14,867 --> 00:36:18,533 WELL, AN UNDERCOVER OPERATIVE FOR THE TEXAS RANGERS 614 00:36:18,533 --> 00:36:20,300 INTERCEPTED THE LETTER. 615 00:36:22,900 --> 00:36:25,267 THE MAN WE SEEK IS IN FLORIDA, 616 00:36:25,267 --> 00:36:28,333 GOING BY THE ALIAS JOHN SWAIN. 617 00:36:33,467 --> 00:36:37,067 ALL RIGHT, HARDIN. TIME TO GO BACK TO TEXAS. 618 00:36:45,067 --> 00:36:47,733 [ GUNSHOTS ] 619 00:36:51,433 --> 00:36:53,567 [ GUNSHOT ] 620 00:36:57,300 --> 00:37:00,900 Hardin: FOR NINE YEARS, I, JOHN WESLEY HARDIN, 621 00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:03,433 HAD LIVED ON MY OWN TERMS. 622 00:37:03,433 --> 00:37:08,967 UNBRIDLED, UNAPOLOGETIC, AND FREE. 623 00:37:08,967 --> 00:37:13,333 BUT MAINTAINING MY FREEDOM HAD COST MANY ENEMIES THEIR LIVES, 624 00:37:13,333 --> 00:37:16,533 AND THE LAW WAS DETERMINED THAT I SHOULD ATONE 625 00:37:16,533 --> 00:37:18,567 FOR WHAT THEY CALLED MY SINS. 626 00:37:33,933 --> 00:37:36,100 SAID HE'D BE HERE. 627 00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:37,933 IS HE? 628 00:37:37,933 --> 00:37:39,500 THAT'S HIM. 629 00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:42,100 HE GOES BY JOHN SWAIN. 630 00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:45,600 IF HE'S NOT ON THAT TRAIN, I'LL END YOUR MISERY RIGHT HERE. 631 00:37:49,067 --> 00:37:50,167 OKAY. 632 00:37:50,167 --> 00:37:52,867 LET'S GO IN ON THREE, BOYS. 633 00:37:52,867 --> 00:37:57,067 I LEFT TEXAS TO ESCAPE THE RANGERS, 634 00:37:57,067 --> 00:37:58,667 BUT THREE YEARS LATER, 635 00:37:58,667 --> 00:38:01,933 THEY TRACKED ME DOWN IN PENSACOLA, FLORIDA. 636 00:38:03,700 --> 00:38:05,100 Man: PUT YOUR HANDS WHERE WE CAN SEE 'EM! 637 00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:06,500 STICK YOUR HANDS UP, YOU SON OF A BITCH! 638 00:38:06,500 --> 00:38:08,633 EVENING, GENTLEMEN. 639 00:38:11,333 --> 00:38:15,800 THAT WAS ONE TIME I WANTED TO DIE BUT COULD NOT. 640 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,867 MR. SWAIN, IS IT? 641 00:38:19,867 --> 00:38:23,067 ALL RIGHT, HARDIN. TIME TO GO BACK TO TEXAS. 642 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:29,733 STOP STRUGGLING, JOHN. 643 00:38:29,733 --> 00:38:32,233 YOU'RE NOT GETTING LOOSE THIS TIME. 644 00:38:32,233 --> 00:38:36,067 TEXAS, MY GOD. 645 00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:48,767 JOHN, IT'S TIME. 646 00:38:48,767 --> 00:38:51,633 Hardin: I NEVER KNEW FROM DAY TO DAY 647 00:38:51,633 --> 00:38:55,833 WHETHER MY INCARCERATION WOULD END WITH DEATH OR FREEDOM. 648 00:38:58,067 --> 00:38:59,833 Roth: THERE'S A DUNGEON THAT, TO THIS VERY DAY, 649 00:38:59,833 --> 00:39:02,600 IS STILL THERE AT THE HUNTSVILLE WALLS UNIT 650 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,333 THAT HE WAS PUT IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. 651 00:39:05,333 --> 00:39:07,200 IT'S ABOUT 6 FEET BY 6 FEET. 652 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,867 VERY MEDIEVAL REALLY, YOU KNOW, AS A FORM OF PUNISHMENT. 653 00:39:17,767 --> 00:39:19,400 Lawrence: HE WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO ESCAPE, 654 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,833 AND FELLOW CONVICTS WERE ALWAYS TURNING HIM IN 655 00:39:21,833 --> 00:39:24,267 AND TELLING THE AUTHORITIES WHAT HE WAS PLANNING. 656 00:39:24,267 --> 00:39:26,433 BUT HE DOES SEEM TO SETTLE DOWN, AT LEAST, 657 00:39:26,433 --> 00:39:27,733 AFTER THE FIRST FEW YEARS. 658 00:39:27,733 --> 00:39:30,667 HE HAD A LAWYER WHO IS CONSTANTLY WORKING 659 00:39:30,667 --> 00:39:34,500 ON TRYING TO GET HIM PARDONED, TRYING TO GET HIM PAROLED. 660 00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:39,533 Hardin: I HAD SPENT 16 YEARS IN A CAGE. 661 00:39:39,533 --> 00:39:44,933 NOW, AT 40 YEARS OLD, I WAS PAROLED 662 00:39:44,933 --> 00:39:50,700 AND RETURNED TO THE WORLD WITH A CLEAN SLATE AND A SECOND CHANCE. 663 00:39:50,700 --> 00:39:54,367 SOME PEOPLE WERE CONVINCED THAT PERHAPS HE'D TURNED A CORNER. 664 00:39:54,367 --> 00:39:58,633 OTHERS WERE NOT SO SURE. DOES A LEOPARD CHANGE HIS SPOTS? 665 00:39:58,633 --> 00:40:02,400 Lawrence: THERE'S A LOT OF LETTERS HE GETS UPON THE TIME OF HIS RELEASE 666 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,233 THAT SAY THAT, "WE HOPE YOU'RE GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL. 667 00:40:05,233 --> 00:40:07,633 WE HAVE EVERY CONFIDENCE THAT YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL." 668 00:40:07,633 --> 00:40:10,833 SO, THERE'S A LOT OF HOPE THAT MAYBE HE WILL HAVE CHANGED 669 00:40:10,833 --> 00:40:12,467 BY VIRTUE OF ALL THESE YEARS. 670 00:40:12,467 --> 00:40:17,033 Hardin: AT HUNTSVILLE, I HAD EARNED A LAW DEGREE 671 00:40:17,033 --> 00:40:19,933 AND PASSED THE TEXAS STATE BAR. 672 00:40:19,933 --> 00:40:26,033 JOHN HARDIN, OUTLAW, WAS NOW JOHN HARDIN, ESQUIRE. 673 00:40:26,033 --> 00:40:28,100 HARDIN COULD NEVER GET HIS LAW BUSINESS OFF THE GROUND 674 00:40:28,100 --> 00:40:29,800 'CAUSE PEOPLE WERE STILL TERRIFIED OF HIM. 675 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,733 BACK WHEN HE WAS AT LARGE, WOMEN HAD TOLD THEIR CHILDREN, 676 00:40:32,733 --> 00:40:34,800 "BE GOOD OR WES HARDIN WILL GET YA." 677 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,700 SO, HE WAS THE BOOGEYMAN. 678 00:40:37,700 --> 00:40:39,833 Parsons: HARDIN GOES WEST, 679 00:40:39,833 --> 00:40:43,300 AND ULTIMATELY ENDS UP IN EL PASO, 680 00:40:43,300 --> 00:40:47,533 WHERE HE RETURNS TO THE OLD HABITS OF HIS YOUTH, 681 00:40:47,533 --> 00:40:51,200 DRINKING, GAMBLING, THIS WILD LIFESTYLE. 682 00:40:52,867 --> 00:40:59,233 Hardin: IN EL PASO, I RESOLVE TO FINISH A PROJECT I'D BEGUN IN PRISON -- 683 00:40:59,233 --> 00:41:03,200 TELLING MY OWN STORY. 684 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,933 Parsons: HE HAD TIME TO THINK ABOUT, 685 00:41:05,933 --> 00:41:10,267 "HOW DO I WANT TO PRESENT MYSELF TO THE READING PUBLIC, 686 00:41:10,267 --> 00:41:11,567 TO POSTERITY?" 687 00:41:11,567 --> 00:41:15,533 AT THIS POINT IN HIS LIFE, HE'S PROBABLY THINKING, 688 00:41:15,533 --> 00:41:17,500 "I WAS BEING A PATRIOT." 689 00:41:17,500 --> 00:41:21,433 Lawrence: HARDIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY REALLY CEMENTS HIS LEGEND 690 00:41:21,433 --> 00:41:25,100 BECAUSE IT'S HIS JUSTIFICATION FOR EVERYTHING HE DOES. 691 00:41:25,100 --> 00:41:27,500 AND THE WAY HE TALKS ABOUT IT, 692 00:41:27,500 --> 00:41:31,867 EVERY SINGLE TIME HE KILLED SOMEONE, THEY DESERVED IT. 693 00:41:34,433 --> 00:41:39,433 Gomber: HARDIN ADMITTED TO 27 HOMICIDES IN HIS REMARKABLE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 694 00:41:39,433 --> 00:41:43,067 BUT MOST HISTORIANS PUT THE NUMBER AT 40 TO 42, 695 00:41:43,067 --> 00:41:44,233 WHICH IS INCREDIBLE. 696 00:41:53,567 --> 00:41:58,500 TRUE, IT IS ALMOST AS BAD TO KILL AS TO BE KILLED. 697 00:41:58,500 --> 00:42:02,067 IT DROVE MY FATHER TO AN EARLY GRAVE, 698 00:42:02,067 --> 00:42:03,333 KILLED MY BROTHER AND COUSINS, 699 00:42:03,333 --> 00:42:09,867 TO SAY NOTHING OF THE GRIEF OF COUNTLESS OTHERS. 700 00:42:09,867 --> 00:42:13,633 I DO SAY, HOWEVER, THAT THE MAN WHO DOES NOT EXERCISE 701 00:42:13,633 --> 00:42:19,100 THE FIRST LAW OF NATURE, THAT OF SELF-PRESERVATION, 702 00:42:19,100 --> 00:42:24,967 IS NOT WORTHY OF LIVING AND BREATHING THE BREATH OF LIFE. 703 00:42:34,100 --> 00:42:35,567 Roth: CLEARLY, HARDIN WAS ON THE SKIDS. 704 00:42:35,567 --> 00:42:37,167 HE WAS DRINKING TOO MUCH. 705 00:42:37,167 --> 00:42:41,400 AND FINALLY, ON AUGUST 1895, 706 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,500 HE WAS IN THE ALMOST DESERTED ACME SALOON, 707 00:42:44,500 --> 00:42:46,400 WHICH IS STILL IN EL PASO, 708 00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,167 AND JOHN SELMAN CAME THROUGH THE DOOR. 709 00:42:49,167 --> 00:42:51,267 NOW, JOHN SELMAN WAS A CONSTABLE, 710 00:42:51,267 --> 00:42:54,600 AND HAD BEEN, REALLY, AN OUTLAW FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE 711 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,333 THROUGHOUT THE WEST. 712 00:42:56,333 --> 00:42:59,867 Alexander: HARDIN MADE SOME REMARKS ABOUT JOHN SELMAN'S SON, 713 00:42:59,867 --> 00:43:01,633 SO SELMAN KILLED HIM. 714 00:43:15,500 --> 00:43:18,667 Lawrence: THE PAST, REALLY, FINALLY CATCHES UP WITH HIM 715 00:43:18,667 --> 00:43:20,133 WHEN HE LEAST EXPECTS IT. 716 00:43:20,133 --> 00:43:23,733 AND SO, I THINK THAT THAT'S REALLY WHAT HIS DEATH SAYS 717 00:43:23,733 --> 00:43:27,533 IS THAT LIVE BY THE SWORD, YOU'RE GONNA DIE BY THE SWORD. 718 00:43:32,333 --> 00:43:34,267 Roth: IF YOU PUT JOHN WESLEY HARDIN 719 00:43:34,267 --> 00:43:36,367 IN THE PANTHEON OF WESTERN GUNFIGHTERS, 720 00:43:36,367 --> 00:43:39,233 HE'S SURELY AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. 721 00:43:39,233 --> 00:43:40,833 Gomber: RIGHT OR WRONG, HE WAS, I THINK, 722 00:43:40,833 --> 00:43:44,733 THE MOST LETHAL OF ALL THE SHOOTISTS IN THE OLD WEST. 723 00:43:44,733 --> 00:43:48,500 AND HE WAS POSSIBLY ONE OF THE MORE HONORABLE, TOO. 724 00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:51,300 HE BELIEVED IN FACING HIS OPPONENTS. 725 00:43:51,300 --> 00:43:55,067 RARELY, IF EVER, DID HE SHOOT SOMEONE FROM BEHIND. 726 00:43:55,067 --> 00:43:56,800 Alexander: THERE WAS NO PLAYBOOK. 727 00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:57,933 THERE'S NO RULE BOOK. 728 00:43:57,933 --> 00:44:00,200 HE LIVED IN THE MOMENT. 729 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:02,300 WHEN HE AWAKENED ON WEDNESDAY, 730 00:44:02,300 --> 00:44:05,767 HE HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN ON THURSDAY. 731 00:44:05,767 --> 00:44:09,800 HE'D PULL OUT HIS GUN AND SOLVE HIS PROBLEM AND RIDE OFF, 732 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:17,767 AND WORRY ABOUT THE NEXT DAY WHEN THE SUN CAME UP. 56971

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