Hugh Anderson was the son of a wealthy Bell County, Texas cattleman; Anderson followed in his father’s footsteps, becoming a cowboy and driving the herds up the Texas Trails to Kansas. Though he came from a good family, he was prone to running with a rough crowd, and in 1871, this would become extremely evident. While working on a trail drive bound for Newton, Kansas, he allegedly helped John Wesley Hardin track down a man named Juan Bideno, who had killed a friend of Hardin’s. When Bideno was found in Bluff City, Kansas, Hardin shot him.
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