This Day in Texas History: John Selman Kills John Wesley Hardin August 19, 1895 On this day in 1895, Constable John Selman killed the notorious John Wesley Hardin in a gunfight at El Paso’s Acme Saloon. Hardin was born in 1853 in Bonham and revealed a violent personality at an early age. In 1867 he…
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This Day in Texas History: Marshal Guns Down Notorious Outlaw / Lawman April 05, 1896 On this day in 1896, in El Paso, U.S. deputy marshal George A. Scarborough shot constable John Selman, a celebrated gunman and gambler who had just left the Wigwam Saloon. Selman died the next day on the operating table. Scarborough…
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This Day in Texas History: Historic Fire Decimates Paris March 21, 1916 Although Paris was founded in the mid-1840s, many of its historic structures were lost in America’s third largest fire that destroyed almost half the town in 1916. The blaze started about five o’clock on the afternoon of March 21, 1916, at the S.…
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