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. [55][56][57] Hardin claimed that he was captured while smoking his pipe and that Duncan found Hardin's pistol under his shirt only after his arrest. Albums include High Fidelity, Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson, and Here Comes the Groom. [26], Regardless of when this session actually occurred, the Band did accompany Dylan for at least one performance in the months following John Wesley Harding. Index to miscellaneous documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Fortieth Congress 1867-68 .p.18 {Texas} 1868", Hardin misspells Stakes name as "Stokes" and Smalley name as "Smolly". Sharing the bill with his folk contemporaries like Tom Paxton, Judy Collins, and Guthrie's son, Arlo, Dylan gave his first public performances in twenty months, backed by the Band (billed then as the Crackers). See Chuck Parsons "A Lawless Breed: John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West ".p.25. Hardin threw money on the ground and shot the would-be thief when he bent over to pick it up. A firefight between the rival camps ensued. As for Hardin, History claimed he took pride in his newfound association with an older, more famous gunslinger. Hardin shot him and then had the body buried to avoid retribution from the man's tribe. Whiting, Ala., August 21. [13] Original CD editions from the 1980s and 1990s have the copyright year of 1968. Return to his roots for Dylan and such a clean version. Western Outlaw. [7]:16 Hardin also claimed that he and his cousin, "Simp" Dixon, encountered a group of soldiers and each killed a man. Contradictory release dates have been claimed for John Wesley Harding. 1967 Preview This 1967 album transcended easy categorization as Bob Dylan moved from the experimentation and rock of his few previous releases. All songs are written by Bob Dylan. Genres: Singer-Songwriter, Pop Rock, Alternative Rock. But he's continued to release music under his alias, a name he shares with a 1967 Bob. Polk had killed a man named Tom Brady, and a detachment of soldiers sent from Corsicana, Texas, were pursuing the duo. [20], After killing Bradley, Hardin claimed that when a posse of fifteen men came after him, he captured two of them and took a shotgun, two six-shooters, a rifle, and two derringers from his captives. However, before the retrial could be organized Selman was killed in a shootout with US Marshal George Scarborough on April 6, 1896, during an argument following a card game. The murderer escaped. John Wesley Hardin was one of the Old West's most notorious killers: a ruthless outlaw who once killed a man just for snoring. He was well known for fabricating or wildly exaggerating stories about his life. John Wesley Harding is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on December 27, 1967, by Columbia Records. He killed at least 21 men in gun duels and ambushes in the period 186877. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. 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. 10: Another Self Portrait (19691971), Vol. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. John Wesley Hardin was born on May 26, 1853 in Bonham, Fannin County, Texas, the second of James Gibson and Elizabeth Cartwright Dixon Hardin's eight children. Cut between 9pm and 12 midnight, "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" and "Down Along the Cove" would be the only two songs featuring Drake's light pedal steel guitar. The memorial came on January 20, 1968, with a pair of shows at New York's Carnegie Hall. Some Rumors says Bob Dylan puts the faces of The Beatles on the album cover hidden in the knots on the tree, intentionally He then ordered the two men to join the other members of the posse at Jim Page's and wait for him to come along, stating, "I reckon they are waiting for me yet. While there, he claimed he shot a man's eye out to win a bottle of whiskey in a bet. De ese disco de Bob Dylan. 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. John Wesley Hardin, one of the deadliest men in the history of the Old West, arrives in Abilene, Kansas, where he briefly becomes friends with Marshal Wild Bill Hickok.. Hardin revealed a tendency . Harding recently launched a side career as a novelist, for which he uses his given name: Wesley Stace. Hardin's violent career started in 1867 with a schoolyard squabble in which he stabbed another youth. [7]:3334, In the summer of 1871, while driving cattle on the Chisholm Trail to Abilene, Kansas, Hardin is reputed to have fought Mexican vaqueros and cattle rustlers. John R. Hardin came to this country from England about 1745. Hardin was born in 1853, killed between thirty and forty men which allegedly included a poor soul in wild Bill Hickock's Abeline Kansas, who's only crime was snoring. 17: Fragments Time Out of Mind Sessions (19961997). In fact, Dixon's mother had been divorced in 1851. [citation needed], On January 20, 1875, the Texas Legislature authorized Governor Richard B. Hubbard to offer a $4,000 reward for Hardin's arrest. After he was pardoned in 1894 he moved to El Paso, Texas, to establish a law practice. He dismounted and managed to discharge the gun by steadying the cylinder with one hand and pulling the trigger with the other. May 26, 1874: Hardin killed Deputy Sheriff Charles Webb in Comanche, Texas. Hardin wrote that he was first exposed to violence in 1861 when he saw a man named Turner Evans stabbed by John Ruff. The Devil in Me. Hardin's father was a circuit-riding Methodist preacher and named his son after the founder of the Methodist sect. He was plagued by recurring poor health, especially when the wound he had received from Sublett became re-infected in 1883, causing him to be bedridden for almost two years. Tired of the feuding, the two were planning to leave the area for good. 25-Sumpter, Trinity County, Texas; 12 June 1860; P.O. [16], The album was re-released as one of the 15 Dylan titles remastered for Hybrid SACD on September 16, 2003, and was reissued again as part of The Original Mono Recordings on October 10, 2010. He was famous as one of the most profligate killers in the Old West. 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. 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. This article is about the Bob Dylan album. Hardin fled Abilene to the Cottonwood Trail. In 1862, at age nine, Hardin tried to run away from home and join the Confederate army. [3] According to Hardin, the following day, Maje "ambushed" him as he rode past shouting at him and waving a stick. John Wesley Hardin ( Bonham, Texas, [ 1] 26 de maio de 1853 [ 2] - El Paso, Texas, 19 de agosto de 1895 [ 2] ). Produced by Bob Johnston, the album marked Dylan's return to semi-acoustic instrumentation and folk-influenced songwriting after three albums of lyrically abstract, blues-indebted rock music. It features mother-of-pearl grips, and the back-strap is hand-engraved "J.B.M. [6] It was voted number 203 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's book All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).[7]. Update 2018-2019: For an absolutely amazing John Wesley Hardin and Jesse Woodson James connection, please read my chapter titled: Jesse James and the Deadliest in Texas ***** Outlaw-Attorney John Wesley Hardin. He was shot by Phil Sublett, who had lost money to him in a poker game. His father, a Methodist preacher, named his son after the founder of the Methodist denomination. [4] While in prison, Hardin studied law and wrote an autobiography. John Wesley Hardin, one of the bloodiest killers of the Old West, is murdered by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas. Wesley Stace On Mountain Stage. media listen watch subscribe about contact Open Menu Close Menu. The other group, consisting of locals from El Paso, sought to prevent the move. The Civil War broke out when Hardin was eight years old. Pepper. $9.99 + $4.00 shipping. [7]:106 It is not known if Hardin was directly or indirectly involved in the killing of Reuben Brown, as he makes no further mention of the incident in his life story. I was as amazed as anybody."[11]. A calm, reflective album, John Wesley Harding strips away all of the wilder tendencies of Dylan's rock albums -- even the then-unreleased Basement Tapes he made the previous year -- but it isn't a return to his folk roots. The second incident, at Bluff Creek, Kansas, occurred when Indians wanted to collect a "tax" on the cattle. He then forced a war party to flee after he shot a second Indian who had killed a beef cow. John Wesley Hardin (May 26, 1853 August 19, 1895) was an American Old West outlaw, gunfighter, and controversial folk icon. [40] In November 1872, Hardin escaped from the Gonzales County, Texas, jail despite a guard of six men; a $100 reward was offered for his arrest. The track durations cited here are those of the remastered version released September 16, 2003, and re-released June 1, 2004. [30][31] Hardin admitted to being involved in the shooting of the Mexican. [4] In 2003, it was ranked number 301 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, moving to 303 in the 2012 version of that list,[5] then to 337 in the 2020 version. 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. In January 1870, Hardin claimed he killed a circus hand at Horn Hill, Texas. C $12.21 + C $19.76 shipping. Sponsored. "And since that point, I more or less had amnesia It took me a long time to get to do consciously what I used to be able to do unconsciously.". No more than 300 hundred journalists received advance CDs of Harding's new record, while only a handful of radio stations received the single "Negative Love." No other physical copies existed. John Wesley Harding was written and recorded by Dylan in six weeks between October and November of 1967, in the collective aftermath of Sgt. John Wesley Harding (1967). Hardin admitted that he and his brother Joseph had been involved (along with both Taylors) in the killings. Selman's 56-year-old father, Constable John Selman Sr. (himself a notorious gunman and former outlaw), approached Hardin on the afternoon of August 19, 1895, and the two men exchanged heated words. See Chuck Parsons "A Lawless Breed: John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West ".p.117. "The 'album concept' and progressive-pop movement, which was virtually unearthed with Pepper, was indeed the order of the day. [22] After the Bell County shootings, Hardin found refuge with his cousins, the Clements, who were then living in Gonzales, in south Texas. ", Parsons, Chuck. Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding is an album of half-spoken secrets, hushed whispers, illegible writings, and missing pages. For his part, Hardin (still using his alias) was fascinated by Wild Bill and reveled in being seen on intimate terms with such a celebrated gunfighter. Sponsored. [7]:17 Allegedly, Hardin killed a black man in Leon County, Texas. (Dallas, Tex.) The Colt was accompanied by a tooled leather holster, marked with a barely visible stamp of an El Paso maker. September 1873, in Brooksville, Hernando County, Florida, a former slave named Allen May was shot and killed. [7]:20[18][19] Hardin eventually admitted killing two men in Hill County. Hardin was born in Bonham, Texas in 1853. A truce was declared, and both parties went their separate ways. John W Hardin His last murder in Texas was the killing of the sheriff of Comanche county. Hardin exchanged words with the man in charge of the other herd; both men were on horseback. https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wesley-Hardin, Spartacus Educational - John Wesley Hardin, Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online - Biography of John Wesley Hardin. He saw Hickok arrive with four policemen. Evans died of his injuries and Ruff was jailed. March 1876: Hardin shot and wounded W.C. Overbey in Gainesville, Florida. [23][notes 2][24][25] Hardin writes that he was made trail boss for the herd. Soon afterwards, on August 6, 1871, Hardin, his cousin Gip Clements, and a rancher friend named Charles Couger put up for the night at the American House Hotel after an evening of gambling. xxx xxxx. [7]:20 Dozens of people saw this fight, and from them there is a good record of how Hardin had used his guns. Both sides accused the other parties of seeking the tourist revenue generated by the location of the body. His wife, Sara, had given birth to their daughter, Anna, earlier that summer. 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. Five Bloody Graves - Al Adamson DVD - John Carradine. [citation needed]. Free Postage. :1114[16], Hardin knew that he would be arrested if he returned home. Hardin, then under the assumed name "Wesley Clemmons" (but better known to the townspeople by the alias "Little Arkansaw"), seemed to have had respect for Hickok, and replied, "If Bill needs killing why don't you kill him yourself? Follow Author John Wesley Hardin > Quotes (?) [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". He first shouted several times for the man to "rollover" and then, irritated by the lack of response, drunkenly fired several bullets through the shared wall, in an apparent effort to awaken him. [8]:214217 Afterward, Hardin moved to El Paso, Texas. The Life of John Wesley Hardin, As Written by Himself is an autobiography by the famous outlaw. [38] Years later, Hardin made a casual reference to the episode: "They tell lots of lies about me," he complained. Before he went to prison, upwards of 40 men had fallen to his guns,. U.S., Index to Public Records, 1994-2019. He claimed credit for many murders that cannot be corroborated. 2.69. While making camp along the way, Hardin escaped when Stakes went to procure fodder for the horses. 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. "[37] ("Monday night", as reported by the newspaper, would have been August 7, 1871, not August 6.) [43][44][45] On the run again in June 1873, Hardin assisted in the escape of his brother-in-law, Joshua Bowen, from the Gonzales County, Texas, jail where he was imprisoned on an 1872 murder charge. Hardin drew his revolver and shot Maje five times. [7]:119, Hardin was tried for Webb's killing, and on June 5, 1878, was sentenced to serve 25 years in Huntsville Prison. This gun and its holster were once sold at auction for $168,000. 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. Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding, The Definitive Collection Part 8 Sealed Vinyl. ", Whittington, Michael. A All along this countryside, E He opened a many a door, A But he was never known D To hurt an. [12] Reproduced in the liner notes to the eleventh volume of the Dylan Bootleg Series is an article by Al Aronowitz for The New York Times, date stamped December 23, 1967, in which he states that John Wesley Harding would be released "within the next two weeks". More music I didn't sit down and plan that sound.". The January 20 issue of Billboard reported on the "blockbuster response" to the LP, saying: "In stores less than a week, the record is reported to have sold more than 250,000 copies. Well, I had a proof of the cover on my wall, so I went and turned it upside down and sure enough . January 5, 1870: Hardin killed Benjamin Bradley and claimed to have brought about the "disappearance" of a "Judge Moore." . New York: Time Life. He is an accomplished musician, actor, and poet. 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. I said fine, but also suggested we add a steel guitar, which is how Pete Drake came to be on that record. And he is the only major pop artist about whom this can be said. Sometimes disparaged for his striking vocal similarity to Elvis Costello who has, himself, expressed displeasure with the uncanny likeness Wesley Harding Stace boasts many appealing virtues that belong to him alone. When Thompson and Coe refused his request to remove the bull, Hickok altered it himself. Subsequently tried, Selman was acquitted of murder. John Wesley Harding. The marriage ended quickly, although it was never legally dissolved. Two buckshot pellets penetrated Hardin's kidney and for a time it looked as if he would die. Born May 26, 1853, in Bonham, Texas, John Wesley Hardin was the son of a Methodist preacher and schoolteacher. Picks on Rebels, especially Texans, to kill." June 1, 1871: Hardin killed three Mexican cowboys in Park City, Kansas. See more John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan (CD, 1989) Share | Add to Watch list. Hardin was a pioneer of the North Carolina territories west of the Appalachian Mountains, a patriot in the Revolutionary War, and the Patriarch of a large family, being the progenitor of many westward pioneering families of the late-18th and 19th centuries. Around this time, there were also major changes in Dylan's private life: his father died from a heart attack, prompting Dylan to return to Hibbing to attend the funeral. As noted above, Hardin claimed to have captured Abilene law officer Tom Carson and other officers and humiliated them sans clothing. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine iTUNES 4. Hickok saw Hardin, who was 16 years younger than he, as a youthful, budding killer to whom he could offer guidance in the savage world of the Old West. In his autobiography, Hardin described his mother as "blond, highly cultured [while] charity predominated in her disposition. He was well known for exaggerating or fabricating stories about his life and claimed credit for many killings that cannot be corroborated. He was also a narcissistic braggart, a pathological liar, and an unrepentant racist. 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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. [48] Two of Hardin's accomplices in the shooting were cousin Bud Dixon and Jim Taylor. While legend has it that Dylan recorded John Wesley Harding after finishing The Basement Tapes sessions with members of the Band, several biographers and discographers have argued that the final reel of basement recordings actually postdates the first John Wesley Harding session. "[24], The critical stature of John Wesley Harding has continued to grow. October 6, 1871: Hardin killed Texas Special Policeman Green Paramore and wounded policeman John Lackey. Someone had discovered little pictures of The Beatles and the hand of Jesus in the tree trunk. 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. [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. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, November 19, 1875, Image 1", "Daily Fort Worth Standard - Google News Archive Search", "Billings v. Concordia Heritage Association, Inc", "Dallas herald. When contacted by Rolling Stone magazine in 1968, album cover photographer John Berg "acknowledged their presence but was reluctant to talk about it. The Colt's serial number was 84304: the gun was recorded in Colt factory ledgers as shipped on July 16, 1891, to Hartley & Graham, New York City. Thus it was by the fall of 1868 I had killed four men and was myself wounded in the arm. Would be arrested if he returned home discovered little pictures of the Methodist sect,! 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