THE OLD WEST MET PENSACOLA… AND PENSACOLA WON.
John Wesley Hardin lived by the gun.
Again and again, when confronted, challenged, insulted, or threatened with arrest, Hardin reached for his revolver. He had learned that if words didn’t settle the argument, a bullet could.
And for years, it worked. Hardin became one of the most feared gunmen in America, credited with killing more than twenty men. He fled Texas, disappeared into West Florida, changed his name to John Swain, and tried to build a new life as a husband, father, businessman, and logger.
But beneath the new name, John Wesley Hardin was still there. And so was the revolver. Then the law finally caught up with him in downtown Pensacola. When officers closed in, Hardin tried to do what he had always done. He reached for the gun that had gotten him out of trouble so many times before.
This time, it didn’t work.
Join us on August 27 for Sweet Tea Murders LIVE and hear the remarkable true story of John Wesley Hardin: the killings, the manhunt, his secret life in West Florida, and the dramatic Pensacola capture that ended one of the Old West’s most notorious criminal careers. Don’t miss this incredible story. Hurry before tickets are gone!
The Old West came to Pensacola.
It picked the wrong town.
