The Wild West gave us many bad men in folklore. In the history of the west, there was no one as despised, feared and prolific a killer as John Wesley Hardin. Legend has it he killed at least 44 men in his lifetime. An 1873 news item in a Savannah, Georgia newspaper led us to this story of his visit to Brooksville, Florida where he killed a man. It is amazing that the deadliest killer in western history would visit Brooksville. Here is the rise and fall of John Wesley Hardin.
