PLOT SUMMARY This true story is an accurate historical portrayal of an American legend, John Wesley Hardin. A product of Texas, a Confederate state during the Civil War period and subsequent Reconstruction era, where Yankee State Police patrolled and a man's word was worth more than a man's life, Hardin became a cowboy. , who spent his free time gambling, drinking and becoming proficient in handling firearms. So competent, in fact, that he once even landed the famous Wild Bill Hickok. Hardin became a gunslinger using his intelligence, resourcefulness, and resourcefulness, as well as his boyish choirboy looks to survive. Throughout his life, Hardin tried to be a good husband and loving father, but he was prone to trouble, always straying from the straight and narrow, a fact only made worse by his heavy drinking. He invariably seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and weapons were his only defense. Ironically, it was the pistol that ended the legend.