HARDIN, JOHN WESLEY 1853-1895. Typed Document Signed ("J.W. Hardin"), an agreement between Hardin and M.W. Collins selling a half interest in the Wigwam Saloon, 1 p, legal folio, El Paso, TX, May 2, 1895, also signed by Collins and notary public/attorney Leigh Clark, leaf toned and creased, horizontal stain to verso. Provenance: purchased from Bob McCubbin, College Station, 1998. CONTRACT FOR HIS INTEREST IN THE WIGWAM SALOON, dated May 2, 1895, the same day as his arrest for the hold-up at the Gem Saloon. Hardin had recently passed the Texas bar, but his life was beginning to take on the familiar contours of drinking and gambling, and now owning a bar seemed more to his taste. The terms and conditions of the sale of a half-interest in the Wigwam Saloon include a sale price of $2,000 plus "a fifty percent (50%) interest in an un-finished book about the life of J.W. Hardin." The cash is due in two installments, and Hardin promises that the book will be completed within a calendar year. Both men will shoulder the responsibilities of managing the saloon, and the name will be changed to "Hardin's Wigwam Saloon." Reportedly, the cash for the Wigwam was borrowed from Helen Beulah M'Rose, whose arrest at the hands of John Selman, Jr., along with the strange circumstances of her husband's murder, would lead to Hardin's murder at the hands of John Selman, Sr., on August 19, 1875 at the Acme Saloon.
HARDIN, JOHN WESLEY 1853-1895. Typed Document Signed ("J.W. Hardin"), an agreement between Hardin and M.W. Collins selling a half interest in the Wigwam Saloon, 1 p, legal folio, El Paso, TX, May 2, 1895, also signed by Collins and notary public/attorney Leigh Clark, leaf toned and creased, horizontal stain to verso. Provenance: purchased from Bob McCubbin, College Station, 1998. CONTRACT FOR HIS INTEREST IN THE WIGWAM SALOON, dated May 2, 1895, the same day as his arrest for the hold-up at the Gem Saloon. Hardin had recently passed the Texas bar, but his life was beginning to take on the familiar contours of drinking and gambling, and now owning a bar seemed more to his taste. The terms and conditions of the sale of a half-interest in the Wigwam Saloon include a sale price of $2,000 plus "a fifty percent (50%) interest in an un-finished book about the life of J.W. Hardin." The cash is due in two installments, and Hardin promises that the book will be completed within a calendar year. Both men will shoulder the responsibilities of managing the saloon, and the name will be changed to "Hardin's Wigwam Saloon." Reportedly, the cash for the Wigwam was borrowed from Helen Beulah M'Rose, whose arrest at the hands of John Selman, Jr., along with the strange circumstances of her husband's murder, would lead to Hardin's murder at the hands of John Selman, Sr., on August 19, 1875 at the Acme Saloon.
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