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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Pretty salty fellow. I read it somewhere that they were so rough they wore their clothes out from the inside.
ReplyDeleteIf it was Jose Bideno, everyone should have shot him.
ReplyDeleteGrumpy,
DeleteRude!
And yet, so very very much true...