A Lawless Breed

Chuck Parsons is the author of Captain John R. Hughes: Lone Star Ranger (winner of the WWHA Best Book Award), The Sutton-Taylor Feud, John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger N. O. Reynolds, and Captain L. H. McNelly. Norman Wayne Brown is retired from the U.S. Air Force and was a former Texas State Parole Officer. He has written two books and articles for True West and Wild West History Association Journal.

Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONE"Chuck Parsons and Norman Wayne Brown made an excellent choice in choosing as their subject a man who would shoot first, pray quick, and ride harder than any outlaws or lawmen in western United States history. It would seem that killing people was what John Wesley Hardin was born for."--from the Foreword by Leon C. Metz, author, Pat Garrett "Chuck and Norm have questioned everything in the Hardin autobiography, thereby adding a lot to our understanding of Hardin's early career. Readers of gunfighter lore will embrace this fine biography, and so will Texans in general."--Bill O'Neal, author of The Johnson-Sims Feud and Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters "The best known outlaw of pioneer Texas was John Wesley Hardin. Misspent as his life might have been, he was a deadly gunman and acknowledged by his contemporaries as a man who wore his emotions on his sleeve and not to be crossed. From an early age to his violent death with his boots on, he left behind a unique paper trail, including an autobiography. Parsons and Brown have dug deep in that trail and come up with a definitive biography that not only accurately tells the saga of Hardin's life, but does it in a readable manner that puts his life in the context of the times."--Rick Miller, author of Texas Ranger John B. Jones and the Frontier Battalion, 1874-1881 and Bloody Bill Longley