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🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | Their skiff'd have ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike. |
0:07.0 | It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up, |
0:13.0 | it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so |
0:17.0 | a guess. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change really low. |
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1:01.0 | The two Texas Rangers made an unlikely pair. One was the classic vision of a Ranger. He was Lieutenant John Armstrong and he was described as an old school Texas lawman. |
1:26.0 | His partner for this assignment was Special Ranger Jack Duncan. Duncan was a veteran detective but from Chicago. |
1:34.0 | They would have to make it work as teammates because they'd been handed the mission that half the lawmen in Texas wanted. |
1:41.0 | They were going to find and arrest John Wesley Hardin. Hardin had spent nearly a decade avoiding capture but after he helped murder Deputy Sheriff Charles Webb, |
1:51.0 | there was no place left to hide in his home state. He and his wife and daughter fled to New Orleans and then across the Gulf of Mexico to Florida. |
2:01.0 | They'd settled in Gainesville and then Jacksonville and then finally the tiny town of Pollard, Alabama on the border between Florida and Alabama. |
2:10.0 | They ended up in Pollard because two private detectives nearly caught Hardin in Jacksonville. |
2:16.0 | The detectives were never heard from again and it's presumed they were killed by Hardin. |
2:22.0 | The greater Hardin family had relatives in Pollard so Hardin placed his wife Jane, their daughter Molly, and their new son John Wesley Jr. in the care of the relatives. |
2:33.0 | He traveled 60 miles south to the area around Pensacola, Florida and worked in the lumber business. |
2:40.0 | And despite his travels and the use of the name Swain instead of Hardin, the Texas Rangers still learned his rough location. |
2:49.0 | In mid-August 1877, Texas governor RB Hubbard signed an extradition order and Lieutenant Armstrong and Detective Duncan boarded a train in Austin. |
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