Most have never heard of this gangster but what a story he had!

Who are some of the oldest Outlaws from the Cowboy era?

Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Dalton Brothers, to name a few. Outlaws were a dime a dozen in the lawless Old West. The ones I mentioned were the most mythologized, achieving legendary status in their day and well beyond. Most of it was BS.

John Wesley Hardin
The worst killer in Texas
“Hardin’s coming to get you if you don’t behave yourself!” parents would tell naughty children in 1880s Texas.

John Wesley Hardin (1853-1895) was the son of a preacher, but had 42 white deaths plus an unknown number of Indians and blacks on his conscience when he was captured in 1878.

He used his 16 years behind bars to train as a lawyer, and his desire to become a law-abiding citizen earned him a pardon.

He established himself as a lawyer ('the best in town', the local newspaper wrote about him for a fee), but after only a year his temper got the better of him again when he got into a fight with the local sheriff in El Paso. It ended with the sheriff shooting dead 'the worst murderer in Texas'.

Apache Kid
Inspiration for Tarzan
The young Apache Has-kay-bay-nay-ntayl (born in the 1860s) was a spy for Al Sieber, who was waging war against the Indians in the Arizona Territory.

When he was 20, his father was killed by a drunken soldier. He killed this man, and for the next ten years he was an outlaw and was known as Apache Kid. A long string of robberies, rapes and murders were attributed to him and his gang. Despite a reward of $5,000, Apache Kid was never caught, and it seems that he lived somewhere in Mexico until old age.

The young Edgar Rice Burroughs participated in a hunt for Apache Kid as a cavalryman in 1896. He may have found inspiration for his first novel about Tarzan, published in 1912, from this story.

Great vid @iceveins since I personally never heard of the guy. Btw, when are we going to do some Chicago vids? Cheers bud.

Thank you!

Soon, to keep things mixed up have a few non-mafia related vids coming soon then will be circling back to Chicago and another interesting mob story out of NYC.

Great to hear bud and thanks again.