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It
was a wonderful late-spring Texas day — the skies were overcast — with
temperatures in the mid-70s.
The crowds enjoyed a fun-filled
day — with just a brief 10-minute sprinkle of moisture. Events
went on non-stop until midnight.
All of the 2007 web pages are still here,
for you to see what you might have missed.
Please plan to attend next
year —
May 17th,
2008
>> We'll start updating this
website in January << |
2007
SPONSORS
Bayer
Motor
Company,
Inc.
Higginbotham
Brothers
F&D Head
Company
Central Texas
Energy
Supplier, Inc.
Dudley
Brothers
Comanche
National Bank
Gore
Brothers, Inc.
Texas Bank
SureGrow Ag
Products, Inc.
Our House
Carrier
North Texas
Brookshire's
Frazier Clark
Citibank
Terry & Quay
McCall
Woodley &
Dudley
Law Office
Brennan
Vineyards
The Comanche
Chief
Central Texas
Farm Credit
Ted & Sandra
Hicks
Perkins
Electric
Prater
Equipment Co.
Burl & Joyce
Conger
Gary Fickes
Comanche
Funeral Home
Dr. Gary Easley,
DDS
Goodson
Insurance
Grand Central
Foods
Marvin & Sharon
McKinnon
Kevin & Jan
Worthington
John Koster
Dairy
Comanche
Cleaners
Wildcat
Dairy
Comanche
County Abstract
Dr. Robert Reedy
DDS
Lunch Money
Inc.
Reyonlds
Chiropractic
Clinic
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Comanche Main Street invite you to the 2007 John Wesley Hardin Days
Festival and CHS All-Class Reunion.
Activities scheduled
during the day include the early morning Outlaw 5k & 10k
"Run for the Money", formal dedication of the recently restored "Old
Cora cabin" and new Visitors Information Kiosk, reenactments of the
famous John Wesley Hardin gunfight with Sheriff Charlie Webb, Fire
Fighters Water Polo, heritage demonstrations, craft and food booths,
and children's activity area.
The Brazos Banditos
are expected to ride into town for three rip-snorting appearances.
…"Lock up your women and livestock."
It will be an action
packed and fun filled day with continuous entertainment—either on
the Main Stage, or around the Courthouse Square. Restaurants,
shops, stores and galleries will be open with special promotions.
Joaquin Jackson, Texas Ranger extraordinaire, is scheduled to be
present and give readings from his book, "One Ranger, A Memoir".
"This project was made possible in part with a grant from
Humanities Texas , the state partner of the
National Endowment for
the Humanities."
A
repeat of last year's popular bus tour of historic Comanche
sites is scheduled, and "In God We Still Trust" will be staged.
The Jack
Black Band will be on stage at 4 P.M. — "a blend of Ragweed,
Cash, and Wills"
The day's festivities
will conclude with the ever popular Street Dance featuring the
legendary Texas musician,
Tommy Alverson.
Click Here for the
Events Schedule
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The son of a Methodist preacher, lawyer, schoolteacher and circuit rider,
Texas’ outlaw John Wesley Hardin was named after the founder of the
Methodist sect—a saint he was not.
 The
“Handbook of Texas” states that “no more dangerous gunman ever operated in
Texas.” The “Terror of Texas”, John Wesley Hardin was rumored to have
killed his first man at the age of 14, and depending on whose doing the
telling, 30 plus men followed. Legend has it that he was so mean that he
once shot a man for snoring.
On May 26, 1874, the outlaw made his mark on Comanche County. While
celebrating his 21st birthday at Jack Wright’s Saloon, John Wesley Hardin
shot Brown County Sheriff, Charles Webb.
Storytellers who knew the outlaw spin a different tale of a gentleman who
“never killed anyone who didn’t need killing.” According to some, he was a
man more sinned against than sinning. It has been posed that many of the
notches on Hardin’s belt came in self-defense rather than rage.
Immortalized in print and in song, the tales of John Wesley Hardin pose
the question, “Was the preacher’s son a cold-blooded killer, or in the
harshness of the late 1800’s, were the black and white lines of morality
blurred by the basic instinct of survival?”
Visit John
Wesley Hardin Days on May 19th
"you decide"
"Vittles
On The Square" |
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Star Beau's Restaurant
— Southwest Corner
Lunch & Dinner: 10:00
AM to 9:00 PM |
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Yumm's the Word Restaurant — East Side — Open All Day
Breakfast served:
7:30–10:00 AM – Lunch: 11:00 to 2:00 PM
Dinner: 5:00 to 9:00 PM |
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