Daily Quiz for August 29, 2009

John Wesley Hardin (1853-1895) was 15 when he first killed a man. Between 1868 – 1877, his victims reportedly included federal soldiers during Reconstruction, a deputy sheriff and at least one Texas Ranger. Sentenced to prison in 1878, he studied law while serving his sentence, was pardoned in 1894 and admitted to the Texas bar shortly thereafter. He was killed by John Selman, one of four lawmen he had hired to kill the husband of a woman with whom he was having an affair.