why build this plot around Hardin?
If they wanted to make a western about a man unjustly accused, why do they have to use the name of a real historical figure, then completely fantasizing his history as a gunfighter?
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I wondered also the same thing when I watched it.
According to the History Channel and/or Wild West Tech Hardin was the most ruthless, meanest gunslinger in the old west.
Legend has it that Wild Bill Hicock tried to disarm him once. When Hardin went to hand over his guns he flipped them over somehow and got the drop on Hicock.
This trick was duplicated on Wild West Tech.
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If ya snooze, ya loose.
shareThe only source for Hardin getting the drop on Hickok with the "road agent's spin" is Hardin's own autobiography. Not one person has ever claimed in a diary, journal or article to have witnessed this alleged incident. Plus, the incident is at odds with what Hardin himself wrote about Hickok years earlier in a letter to his wife. Most Western historians seriously doubt that it ever happened.
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