media listen watch subscribe about contact Open Menu Close Menu. See more John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan (CD, 1989) Share | Add to Watch list. His autobiography was published posthumously in 1925 by Bandera publisher, historian, and journalist J. Marvin Hunter, who founded both the Frontier Times magazine and the Frontier Times Museum. City & Area Directories. Pepper. In 1894 he was pardoned and retired to a peaceful life in Gonzales, Texas, with his three children (the wife whom he married in 1872 had died while he was in prison). July 1895: Fined $25 for gaming, relating to the May 1 incident, where he lost and took back $100 at the Gem Saloon. Hardin met up with Hickok again while on a cattle drive in August 1871. July 26, 1872: Hardin wounded Texas State Policeman Sonny Speights in Hemphill, Texas. They played only three songs ("Grand Coulee Dam", "Dear Mrs. Roosevelt", and "I Ain't Got No Home"), and it would be another eighteen months before Dylan would again perform in concert.[25]. in Hill County, Texas. [6]:238. In mid-1877, two former slaves of his father's, "Jake" Menzel and Robert Borup tried to capture Hardin in Gainesville, Florida. It is reported that the hanging ropes were deliberately left too long (in order to cause death through slow strangulation), as grass was found between their toes. . [14] Towards the end of the drive, a Mexican herd crowded in behind Hardin's and there was some trouble keeping the two herds apart. Start by following John Wesley Hardin. " A negro named Mage" gets his face a little scratched in a wrestling match with the 15-year-old John Wesley Hardin and does not handle it in a very mature way, as we can learn from Hardin's posthumously published autobiography The Life Of John Wesley Hardin, "as written by himself . Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Later that year, on March 16, Hardin was pardoned, and, on July 21, he passed the state's bar examination, obtaining his license to practice law. C $10.85 + C $15.00 shipping. Free Postage. City & Area Directories. According to a Kosse Texas Webmaster, there is a tradition that this killing took place in a hotel beside the towns railroad station). John Wesley "Wes" Hardin (1853-1895), son of James "Gip" Gibson Hardin (1823 - 1876) and Mary Elizabeth Dixon (1826 - 1885), was a notorious outlaw and gunfighter in nineteenth-century Texas. The album was remastered and re-released in 2003 using a new technology, SACD. [7]:73 Hardin made a sick-bed surrender to authorities, handing over his guns to Sheriff Reagan and asking to be tried for his past crimes in order "to clear the slate". The officers knocked Hardin unconscious. He also gained a substantial following with his solo acoustic performances and popular videos. Sponsored. A group of local men broke into the jail in July 1874 and hanged Joe and the two Dixon boys. 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[67], A century later, on August 27, 1995, there was a confrontation between two groups at the site of Hardin's grave. 2.69. John R. Hardin came to this country from England about 1745. [54], On August 24, 1877,[4][notes 6] Rangers and local authorities confronted Hardin on a train in Pensacola, Florida. June 1, 1871: Hardin killed three Mexican cowboys in Park City, Kansas. In the course of his career he outgunned and killed at least eight Union soldiers and four black policemen pursuing him on various murder charges. Thus it was by the fall of 1868 I had killed four men and was myself wounded in the arm. There, Hardin's father established and taught at the school that John Hardin and his siblings attended. Most of all he was a coldblooded killer. [7]:3032, A Texas Historical Marker notes that in the 1870s, Hardin hid out in the vicinity of Pilgrim, Texas. Sponsored. One of Hardin's men yelled out a warning,[7]:92 and in the ensuing gunfight, Webb was shot dead. [7]:13[notes 1][See [11]][12] Hardin further wrote that his father did not believe he would receive a fair hearing in the Union-occupied state (where more than a third of the state police[13] were former slaves), so he ordered him into hiding. Hardin claimed six vaqueros died in the exchanges (five of them reportedly shot by him),[6][7]:3942[notes 3] although this claim appears exaggeratedonly three Mexican vaqueros were killed. He was well known for fabricating or wildly exaggerating stories about his life. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall, Vol. In Hardin's autobiographical version of the gunfight, he claims the first fatality was the Mexican he had previously wounded, "Hosea", and that he was the boss vaquero. This article is about the Bob Dylan album. : John Wesley Harding 1967 8 LP's 2 1 RIAA 5002012303 [1] [ ] They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Join the club in our final episode of the season as we discuss Fables in a Foreign Land, the LA punk rock scene, and Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding. Bradley allegedly fired a shot at Hardin and missed; Hardin drew both his pistols and returned fire, one shot striking Bradley in the head and the other in his chest. [59] On February 14, 1892, during his prison term, he was convicted of another manslaughter charge for the earlier shooting of J.B. Morgan and given a two-year sentence to be served concurrently with his unexpired 25-year sentence. Hardin claimed that after killing Maje, he shot three, Hardin said he shot one of the two soldiers killed in 1869 in "Richland Bottom", the other having been shot by his cousin, Simpson "Simp" Dixson, a member of the. The cover photograph of John Wesley Harding shows a squinting Dylan flanked by brothers Luxman and Purna Das, two Bengali Bauls, Indian musicians brought to Woodstock by Dylan's manager, Albert Grossman. My Least Favorite Things. John Wesley Hardin, (born May 26, 1853, Bonham county, Texas, U.S.died Aug. 19, 1895, El Paso, Texas), most notorious killer and quick-draw gunman of the Texas frontier. Son of a Methodist preacher, John Wesley Hardin was only 15 years old when he first had a price placed on his head. June 19, 1872: Hardin is wounded in a gunfight in. That same month, Hardin may have wounded three Mexicans in an argument over a Three-card Monte card game, pistol-whipping one man over the head, shooting one man in the arm, and shooting the third man in the lung. John Wesley Hardin ( Bonham, Texas, [ 1] 26 de maio de 1853 [ 2] - El Paso, Texas, 19 de agosto de 1895 [ 2] ). Before he went to prison, upwards of 40 men had fallen to his guns,. He killed his first man at the age of 15, claiming he did so in self-defense. 2 on the U.S. charts and topping the UK charts. [38] Years later, Hardin made a casual reference to the episode: "They tell lots of lies about me," he complained. Omissions? Although there are no contemporary newspaper reports of this shooting, this killing is mentioned in a 1924 account by Texas cattleman George N. Steen, who reported: The Alachua county coroner (who was allegedly part of the mob according to Hardin) afterward rendered the verdict that "Eli" had died after setting fire to the jail himself. John Wesley Harding was written and recorded by Dylan in six weeks between October and November of 1967, in the collective aftermath of Sgt. [7]:23 Less than a week after this incident, in nearby Kosse, Texas, Hardin was accompanying a prostitute home when they were accosted by her pimp, who demanded money. In a vintage 1924 article, John Hunter quotes John Wesley Hardin's midwife as predicting he would either turn out to be a "great hero" or a "monumental villain." In truth, he was wholly neither and a little of both. [26][27] Hardin also claimed to have killed two Indians in separate gunfights on the same cattle drive. All songs are written by Bob Dylan. After hearing of Woody Guthrie's passing (two weeks before John Wesley Harding's first session), Dylan contacted Harold Leventhal, Guthrie's longtime friend and manager, and extended an early acceptance to any invitation for any memorial show that might be planned. Dylan returned for one last session on November 29, completing all of the remaining work. On Aug. 19, 1895, while standing at the bar of the Acme Saloon, he was shot in the back of the head by John Selman, Sr., an El Paso policeman and thief, with whom he had had a long feud. He then stole a horse and rode to a cow camp 35 miles outside town. [53] An undercover Texas Ranger named Jack Duncan intercepted a letter sent to Hardin's father-in-law by Hardin's brother-in-law, Joshua Robert "Brown" Bowen. Hardin claimed that Dixon's mother, sisters, and brother had been tortured and killed by Union soldiers during the Civil War. xxx xxxx. In November 1876, in Mobile, Alabama, Hardin was arrested briefly for having marked cards. If you wish to be successful in life, be temperate and control your passions; if you don't, ruin and death is the result. John Wesley (Wes) Hardin, outlaw, son of James G. and Elizabeth Hardin, was born in Bonham, Texas, on May 26, 1853. This may not have been the first killing Hardin Was involved in: A US Congressional record reports that "No.302 Kaufman county, August 1867.- John Love, L.T.Nash, Joe Hardin, and J. Hardin {white} murdered Tom {colored}. He wrote that he and Jim Clements prevented the rest of the vaqueros aside from those who were already killed from firing on them by deliberately stampeding the Mexican herd. The album is named after Texas outlaw John Wesley Hardin, whose name was misspelled. John Wesley Hardin Jr. was a notorious outlaw and gunfighter in the American Old West. [34] Couger was hit in the heart by one of the bullets as he lay in bed and was killed instantly. July 18, 1873: Hardin killed Dewitt Sheriff, March 11, 1874: Hardin was involved in Jim Taylor and William Taylor's killing of William Sutton and Gabriel Slaughter. He is believed to have killed a total of 44 men over the course of his lifetime, all of them before he reached the age of 23. Pursued by lawmen for most of his life, in 1877 at the age of 23, he was sentenced to 24 years in prison for murder. Another Colt revolver (known as a .41-caliber "Thunderer"), which was owned by Hardin and used by him to rob the Gem Saloon, was sold at the same auction for $100,000. ", Ellison, Douglas W. "Rivals in Texas: Hardin and Longley. Hardin denied writing the poetry, claiming in turn that Sloter was the author. A murderer to most, a folk hero to some, but one of the true legends of the Old West was the violent gunslinger John Wesley Hardin. During most of the recording, the rhythm section of drummer Kenneth A. Buttrey and bassist Charlie McCoy were the only ones supporting Dylan, who handled all harmonica, guitar, piano, and vocal parts. Stakes and 12 citizens in, July 26, 1872: Texas State Policeman Sonny Speights was wounded in the shoulder by Hardin in. Residence. Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding is an album of half-spoken secrets, hushed whispers, illegible writings, and missing pages. Texas Convict Ledgers and Conduct Registries, 1849-1970; An Urban legend claims there was a question if Hardin was shot first in the back of the head or in front in the chest: supposedly the answear was: If he was shot in the chest it was good markmanship; if he was shot in the head it was good judgement, Texas State Police arrest reports for 18701871; he is listed as "Hardin, J.R.", "Executive Documents Printed by order of the House of Representatives, 18681869"; Summary of Reports for the, On December 9, 1868, Lt Charles Schmidt, the. Bob Dylan's eighth studio album John Wesley Harding (released 12/27/67) may be the most singular piece of work he's ever created. [35] Although Hardin may not have intended to kill Couger, he had violated an ordinance prohibiting firing a gun within the city limits. In January 1870, Hardin claimed he killed a circus hand at Horn Hill, Texas. . But, the Summer Of Love was, indeed, over, and people . Another claim was that he killed a man in Abilene, Kansas, in the summer of 1871. In February 1871, while the herd was being collected for the drive to Kansas, a freedman, Bob King, attempted to cut a beef cow out of the herd. So it ended up coming out the way he brought it back.". Showing 1-2 of 2 "A bullet to the front of the head demonstrates good marksmanship. Bowen had been charged with the December 17, 1872, killing of Thomas Holderman. According to Hardin, they tied him on a horse with no saddle for the trip. 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