The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 116, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1957 Page: 4 of 12
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I THE DAILY NEWS-TELEGRAM Thursday, May 16, 1967.
man or osed a ran for pay- Whan* unseated, indexed aad
ever a jail break or fast escape
called for a borrowed hone,
Hardin always returned the horse.
A killer yea, bat never a horse
thief. He was a rebel to the last
oance of energy and drop of
blood, until his reformation in
prison.
“My first trouble was with the
Yankees and the state police,”
Hardin once said. The Tex-s state
police, that is; a carpetbagging
outfit that Hardin seemed des-
tined to wipe out with his own
guns if he hadn't headed up the
Chisholm Trail, headed for adven-
ture and more killings and Abi-
lene.
The Nordyke book is fully doc-
tains the fall poignant story of
the gunman’s wife and family, bis
prison years at Huntsville whieh
began with violence aad ended in
full reformation. To the gentle
giH who married Hardin and
stood by him until her death he
was beyond reproach. Hardin’s
later marriage was as strange as
old Sam Houston's in Tennessee.
Hardin was the most savage
killer Texas or the whole West
ever spawned. Yet the circum-
stances of his youth "Ip the bitter
and lawless reconstruction period
after the Civil Waif helped explain
him. Descendant of Texas pio-
neers, he held chivalric ideals of
personal honor and the defense
of womanhood. He never robbed a
John Wesley Hardin, Texas' fast-
est, toughest gunman.
For the first time, the full life
story has been written of a
preacher’s boy who had killed 23
men by the time he was 18 and
44 before he himself was slain in
El Paso at the age of 42. That
was in 1896 and men now alive
who knew the most notorious kill-
er of the old West helped Nor-
dyke round out the authentic de-
tail and drama of an outlaw’s
strangely paradoxical life.
The Amarillo writer spent a
year in research and visited all
the scene’s of Hardin’s violent
years. Hardin’s descendants made
available trunks of letters, pap-
ers and family lore. The book con-
Lewis floniyke's
Grandma Moses Remains
Active, Talented Artist
New Book Tells
0! Fast Gunman
• m
Hot Springs, Ark.. May 16 (0
—- A teen-age bridegroom has
been fined in Hot Springs on a
charge of contributing to the de-
linquency of his 13-year-old bride.
Seventeen-year-old Harold Graves
was fined $60 and costs. Judge
M. C. Lewis also fined the girl's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. James
Spearman, |60 and costs on the
same charge.
Graves and Sandra Spearman
were married last Saturday.
New York state and settled on the
farm at Eagle Bridge, N. Y. And
Grandma Moses continued to live
there after her husband’s death
in 1927.
Grandma Moses was past 70
years of age and had never had
an art lesson in her life when she
started her career. Yet within a
few years she was nationally fa-
mous, perhaps America’s most
popular "modern primitive.” Her"
paintings are noted for their sim-
plicity and realism in depicting
the rural scene. Some have sold
for as much as $3,000 each.
Grandma Moses became a
painter when her doctor ordered
her to give up farm work. She
says, “I looked around for a hob-
by that would keep me busy and
out of mischief.” The hobby ahe
chose was weaving pictures out
of yarn. After a time arthritis
made it impossible for her to hold
u needle and someone suggested
painting. She started that work
with some discarded paint the
found in a barn at her farm home.
At first she gave her pictures
away. Then, in 1938, she had
some of them on display at a
drugstore in Hoosick Falls, N. Y.,
which is near her farm home.
They were priced at $3 to $6, de-
pending on the sixe. A New York
City art collector noticed the
paintings as he drove through and
bought them all. Other orders fol-
lowed, and s little later there was
a "one man" show of Grandma
Moses’ work in New York. From
then on her pictures were very
much in demand, and her paint-
ings of warm, colorful village and
country scenes became Christmas
card classics.
By Associated Press
After watching John Wesley
Hardin ahoot down five armed
and wildly firing men in about a
minute, * cowman on the Chis-
holm Trail remarked: “With eith-
er hand or both hands at the same
time that boy can handle a pistol
faster than a frog can lick flies."
This is the first sentence of
Lewis Nordyke’s new book shout
. By Associated Frees
4 Grandma Moses is a talented
*. and famous artist. And during her
l latest visit to New York City she
I' proved that even at the sge of 96,
* ahe enjoys her little joke. While
- in Manhattan, she chuckled as
1 she told how she had departed
from a prepared movie script dur-
• ing a rehearsal at Albany, N. Y.
I A few days before. She told Gov-
ernor Averell Harriman that she’s
? too lazy to do anything besides
paint. But on the final run
* through the white-haired, bespec-
tackled little artist delivered her
lines correctly—she said that she
v also likes to watch television and
read.
In New York City, Grandma
Moses presided at the opening of
an exhibition of S3 of her pic-
tures which have just returned
from a 2-ycar tour of 9 Europeun
T cities.
When she told about her sched-
ule, people realized that despite
her advanced years, there’s noth-
ing lazy about Grandma Moses.
On the contrary, she is amazingly
• busy, despite the fact she is bent
a little now with rheumatism. She
revealed thst she is working now
on 6 winter scenes for Christmas
orders. She says that she com-
poses now from imagination, rath-
er than reality, working on sever-
al scenes at once, to conserve
paint. She adds that she puts in
Tha continent of North Amer-
ica occupies 8 million square
miles about 16 per cent of the
world’s lend area.
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 116, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1957, newspaper, May 16, 1957; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth828943/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.