El Paso Has The Most Famous Outlaw Grave In Texas

John Wesley Hardin may be the most notorious old west outlaw in terms of the body count he racked up but the most famous outlaw may also lie in Texas.

Texas saw some of the wildest of the wild west days and was home to many outlaws along with "good guys" of questionable virtue.

Some chingon mofo's lived, killed and died in the lone star state and one of the absolute biggest names in the 1800's outlaw business may be one of them.

John Wesley Hardin went from troubled youth, to convict, to lawyer, to murderer, to murder victim. He killed at least 10 men and his body count may be as high as 40. He's buried in El Paso's Concordia Cemetery.

A big and bloody name in history but the biggest, slightly less bloody, name of all may also be buried in Texas. I say "may" because the body of Jesse James is supposed to be in Missouri.

Not exactly a vicious killer like Hardin but quite a few people met their end at Jesse's hand during and after the Civil War. Jesse was assassinated by a member of his own gang and buried on the family farm in Missouri. His body was later moved to a Missouri cemetery.

They tell a different tale in Granbury, Texas insisting that they have Jesse's final resting place. A man named John Dalton claimed to be the real Jesse James in 1948.

It is said that Jesse met a young woman here and fell in love. Local lore says James enjoyed his life in Granbury so much that he returned here with his grandson for the last days of his life.
Many James family descendants also believe the man who died here was Jesse James and they have dedicated a headstone and continue to visit and honor his grave which is in the Granbury Cemetery. - granbury.org

See a pic of Dalton here.