John Wesley Hardin was a wanted man during his lifetime on a variety of charges. He even had run-ins with Wild Bill Hicock. When he was jailed in 1878, he claimed to have killed 38 men in his lifetime. He was released in 1894 and had studied enough in prison to pass the Texas bar exam. Unfortunately he never had a chance to practice law and was shot and killed in 1895 at the age of 42.