John Wesley Hardin

John Wesley Harding
Was a friend to the poor,
He trav'led with a gun in ev'ry hand.
All along this countryside,
He opened a many a door,
But he was never known
To hurt an honest man.


John Wesley Hardin once shot a man through a hotel wall for snoring. Despite the first shot awaking the man, John Wesley sent another bullet his way, ensuring the kind of sleep that doesn't wake anybody up.
He wasn't even twenty years old.


"They say I killed six or seven men for snoring.
Well, it ain't true, I only killed one man for snoring."
- John Wesley Hardin