Four Sixes to Beat John Wesley Hardin in El Paso edition by Charles F Price Literature Fiction eBooks
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Based on the life of the West's most feared gunman, John Wesley Hardin, this novel trails the evil spawned by the son of a Methodist minister, named for the founder of Methodism, who was credited with no less than forty-two killings. Eventually captured by Texas Rangers and convicted of murder, the book opens with Hardin having just completed sixteen years in Huntsville Penitentiary. During his imprisonment his beloved wife Jane has died in poverty; his children have grown to adulthood in the homes of friends and relatives and are strangers. He has pondered his guilt, embraced religion and studied the law. Pardoned by the governor, he has settled in El Paso to take up a legal practice. Middle-aged and repentant, he longs to live out his remaining years as a model citizen. He decides to write a confessional autobiography. The act summons up not contrition but the thrills of his bloody past and his old longing for notoriety and justification of evil. He allows himself to be drawn into a plot with corrupt lawmen Jeff Milton and George Scarborough to collect a reward for a client, fugitive Martin Mroz, whose wife Beulah is Hardin's degraded mistress. The plot ends in murder and incurs the wrath of the feral El Paso constable Uncle John Selman, whose long-held reputation for ferocity Hardin's has eclipsed. The stage is set for a fatal showdown.
Four Sixes to Beat John Wesley Hardin in El Paso edition by Charles F Price Literature Fiction eBooks
Anyone who loves reading -and not just Westerns - will enjoy this offering from Price. The author seems to get inside of the head of Harding and stay there throughout the fictionalized tale of his last days in El Paso. The story itself is fascinating but it is really the author's skill at his craft that makes this one of the best Westerns I have read. The characters and setting jump off the page and stay long after the book is read.Product details
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Four Sixes to Beat John Wesley Hardin in El Paso edition by Charles F Price Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
An explosion right out of the box. Exciting, righteous, entertaining. If you don't like this one, you better go back to watching soap operas.
Four Sixes to Beat is a historically accurate recounting of the final days of the West's most famous gun fighter, John Wesley Hardin. Hardin is recently out of prison, trying to make something of himself as a lawyer, but is lost in the recollection of his earlier life as he writes his memoir. Price is a clear and precise writer and he captures the anxiety of a man we think of as fearless as he takes account of his life and looks for a path forward.
Anyone who loves reading -and not just Westerns - will enjoy this offering from Price. The author seems to get inside of the head of Harding and stay there throughout the fictionalized tale of his last days in El Paso. The story itself is fascinating but it is really the author's skill at his craft that makes this one of the best Westerns I have read. The characters and setting jump off the page and stay long after the book is read.
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