Lost Cause: John Wesley Hardin, the Taylor-Sutton Feud, and Reconstruction Texas

In 1998, Kitchen Sink Press published a single-issue comic that digs into the bloody history of Reconstruction-era Texas, focusing on outlaw John Wesley Hardin and the brutal Taylor-Sutton Feud. Written and drawn by a single creator, this historical work uses the Western genre to examine the real violence and social upheaval that followed the Civil War. It stands as a concise, fact-based graphic narrative that brings a specific, turbulent period of American history to the page.