On this day, Feb. 17, in 1894, infamous gunslinger John Wesley Hardin was released and later pardoned after spending 15 years in a Texas prison for murder.
Hardin was one of the deadliest, meanest and most famous outlaws. He once shot and killed a man for snoring, and is believed to have killed more than 30 people, including law enforcement officials who tried to capture him.
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