The Story of John Wesley Hardin - Old West Outlaw/Gunslinger

[@stepevin923]

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.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you so much for watching. This post is very encouraging. Stay tuned. I'll make sure I do some more like this.

[@stepevin923]

@@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.

[@patriciajrs46]

Glad you're here. You tube is a wonderful venue for people to connect and enjoy the same entertainment.

[@alan30189]

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!

[@glengrieve544]

Great content and beautifully presented thanks for the upload watching from Melbourne Australia

[@williambranson9289]

You did a awesome job on explaining Mr Hardin. thanks so much...

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you for watching

[@JasonFerguson1283]

Fascinating. Love this kind of history telling!!

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you

[@patriciajrs46]

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.

[@tonyoconnor6784]

Great video, thank you. 🇨🇮💚🇨🇮💚

[@agoisgod]

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.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you so much.

[@DCJNewsMedia]

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

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Oh man, thank you so much. Means a lot.

[@DCJNewsMedia]

@@goodlifeontheroad your welcome 🙏 Brother

[@robharding4028]

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.

[@vickyd4966]

Great video. But wasn't Hickok sheriff of Abilene, Kansas and not Abilene, Tx?

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Yes. Had Texas on my mind I guess.

[@williamhurt8512]

@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.............

[@goodlifeontheroad]

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.

[@MrBmoll5858]

Thanks for sharing this story, you did great job 👍

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you so much

[@phil6506]

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.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you

[@dbarker7794]

Well done. Thanks. Just watched a documentary the other night called "Serial Killers of the West" that included Hardin.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

I need to look that up. Bet that's interesting.

[@pamelaparker8511]

Hardin is a cousin of my husbands Maternal Great-Grandmother. Bonnie Parker is a relation on the Paternal side of my husbands family.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Oh wow. Thank you for sharing.

[@williamsedlock3903]

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

[@c.johnson1691]

Very good presentation.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you so much

[@lawnpro979]

thanks for posting, I learned a lot....

[@anthonydexter262]

To be honest i really enjoyed that video and greetings from the uk 🇬🇧👍

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you for watching

[@patriotj5426]

I loved the telling of straightforward facts as they are currently known.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you

[@johnmurray8428]

Interesting, thank you!!

[@michaeldecker1106]

Just found ya! Loved it!

[@samuelharper1045]

GREAT JOB.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you

[@jyrkikk]

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.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Wondered that myself. I'm a preachers son too and have always knew better. Bafflingly

[@chrislouden6702]

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

[@ltd2372]

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.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

@@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.

[@ltd2372]

@@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.

[@robertmashburn8330]

Thanks for the video, well done!!

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you

[@larryswindcatcher]

Good job. Keep up the effort.

[@rickwebb5681]

You did great! Good video!

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you

[@chrisa.3524]

Bravo....cool stuff

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you

[@chrisa.3524]

@@goodlifeontheroad cool stuff and very well made.. ..Thank you

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you

[@williammeehan1799]

I like the work you are doing

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you so much. Very encouraging

[@michaelhegerfeld5286]

Excellent video thanks.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you for watching

[@robharding4028]

Good Job ! very interesting video,

[@RRECS]

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.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

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.

[@RRECS]

Thanks for responding. I am still listening to your story. It's a well put together story. Thanks for sharing it.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

@@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.

[@michaelratliff9449]

Good job!..Judge Roy Bean ..is a good tale..

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you for the tip. I'll look into that one

[@QualifiedN3rd]

Very nice Jason!

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you so much for watching

[@thedangerzone5692]

The best thing you could do is to keep posting more exciting content!

[@787maggie]

He looks crazy in that photo

[@bannedfromtheshow8188]

Thank you for the video. I think you may have Abilene Texas and Abilene Kansas confused.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

You are correct. I did have that wrong.

[@chrisguerra2341]

Great job on the video

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you so much

[@terrybunton2586]

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.

[@whatsthedealwithdanny3913]

Great video, I visited John Wesley Hardin's Grave back in Sept and did a KZbin 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.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you for watching. I'll have to go check out your video for sure.

[@timothyscavo8510]

Thanks!

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you

[@hansgruber650]

These were focused individuals, a small breed of TRUE gunfighters.

[@RRECS]

Born in 1852

[@Chuck-he1jd]

great video .. better than history channel

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Wow thank you so much very humbled

[@alan30189]

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.”

[@RememberMe123-b4b]

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😔😔

[@lambastepirate]

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!

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Oh wow. Very interesting. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@mrmeener625]

yea he was shot in the front after he was dead and on the floor by that yellow bastrd

[@HeadR47]

Guess those witnesses were full of it

[@jerryyager2601]

Enjoyed the video, but I was under the impression that the man shot for snoring was a myth.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Not according to John Wesley Hardin in his book however he has been known to exaggerate

[@waltirvin2979]

He had a song written about him by Bob Dylan. He was considered an American Robin Hood.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Oh wow. I did not know that.

[@dbarker7794]

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.

[@roncarpenter7240]

I was wondering if anyone would point out the Dylan song. Thanks.

[@gostrum1]

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[@jpx1508]

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.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

WOW 🥺😳😱

[@flintliddon]

I always remembered the Time Life commercial “John Wesley Hardin. So mean …he once killed a man just for snoring”

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Oh wow. I didn't even know there was a commerical

[@flintliddon]

@@goodlifeontheroad back in the late seventies

[@braden8155]

Check out The Lawless Breed 1953 Western Rock Hudson Julie Adams Dennis Weaver Lee Van Cleef. The story of John Wesley Hardin.Brilliant!!

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thanks, I sure will.

[@RRECS]

Lawyers is a good one.

[@davidmoore2075]

Good Job

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you

[@dwightbutler2221]

What's the story with the grandchildren you mentioned, did he have children?

[@RRECS]

He did have children

[@mtipton8710]

I'm pretty sure Wild Bill Hickok was Town Marshal of Abilene, Kansas. Not Texas.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

You are absolutely correct. Mistake that slipped by me when I recorded this. Thank you for mentioning this.

[@mechanicman8687]

Talk about the sommers county West Virginia 1861 civil war

[@goodlifeontheroad]

I'll have to look into that

[@coxscorner]

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.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Awesome. Thanks for the tip

[@hetrodoxly1203]

Surprised there's no mention of his part in the The Sutton-Taylor feud.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

I did read about that but had to keep the video from getting too long. Hated to leave it out.

[@bigtay522]

Hardin was a friend to my Taylor family during the Taylor-Sutton feud.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Wow that's awesome. He would be one of want on my side.

[@jpx1508]

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.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

So interesting. Thank you for sharing

[@jpx1508]

@@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. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3XIZoGrp616m9E

[@larryrobinson6914]

I hate guys who snore myself

[@goodlifeontheroad]

😂😆

[@davidpearn2484]

Yes a very important guy for Bob Dylan to sing a song about him.

[@STho205]

As a boy, he killed another boy in a knife fight and was ALMOST expelled. We were once made of sterner stuff.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

My thoughts exactly. If some kid even brought a pocket knife to school now they would never see the inside of a school again.

[@antoniotaylor391]

He was a sociopath. There was nothing admirable about him.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Couldn't agree more

[@stevenwaynej5881]

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

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Didn't even think of that. Well, there is always a next time. Lol

[@Godlovesyouneway]

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.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

And you would be right. I slipped

[@victorioguedea9504]

I think you have your Abilene s mixed up Wild Bill Hickok was in Abilene Kansas not Texas

[@goodlifeontheroad]

You are absolutely correct

[@estebanterrazas5324]

You did good. I didn't like the into and conclusions. But the info part very good.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Thank you so much

[@barbarapatterson4132]

That would put him up there with Billy the Kid.

[@oldfart3137]

That's Abilene, Kansas, not Abilene, Texas.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

You are correct

[@pdgordn]

🤠

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Lol

[@dougbrown9425]

👍

[@WhoisMichelleCollie]

I love gun tricks, that guy was good.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Yes, very

[@victorwadsworth821]

Been there in 2006, pocked mocked face outlaw.

[@billrowden5917]

You missed the killing of deputy Webb in commance Texas

[@goodlifeontheroad]

I did. So much more about John Wesley that I could fit into a small video. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@maxinemcclurd1288]

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.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

😂😆. Can't deny that.

[@rogersheddy6414]

I should think a little more about wives and kids would be in order. What would a Gunman's domestic life look like?

[@ericlomax1793]

I have some relation to John Westley Hardin on my mother side of her family.

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Oh wow. That's pretty cool

[@EVILDR235]

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.

[@HeadR47]

Abilene Kansas, not Texas

[@goodlifeontheroad]

You are correct. My mistake.

[@money.making.mitchell]

Killing a man for snoring. The good old days

[@2011Matz]

Isn't "Gunslinger" a term invented by Hollywood?

[@goodlifeontheroad]

Gosh, I'm not sure. Very possible I guess

[@billylittleton3395]

Love john

[@thomaspickett9623]

Club of 42 years old

[@tracymurray9798]

Mage like page and I see somebody had to pull the race card and he never killed a man for snoring

[@cynthiacarter665]

In the young portrait of Hardin, he has the look of pure evil and hatred.

[@tonimonteith8125]

Very handsome guy, too bad he was a bad person.