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Thomas Horn Jr., (November 21, 1860 – November 20, 1903) was an American scout, cowboy, soldier, range detective, and Pinkerton agent in the 19th-century and early 20th-century American Old West.
Feb 3, 2024 · Thomas Horn Jr. first made a name for himself in the Wild West as a scout, cowboy, and Pinkerton agent, but he later became infamous as a hired killer.
Sep 18, 2021 · Read the fascinating history of Tom Horn, the gun-for-hire who was both range detective and paid killer, and why he's still so elusive in history books.
Nov 8, 2014 · Tried, convicted and hanged in 1903 in Cheyenne for a murder he almost certainly did not commit, Tom Horn was an enigmatic range detective in the employ of ranchers who controlled large tracts of land in southeastern Wyoming and northwestern Colorado.
However, it can be plausibly argued that the Old West, the nation’s final frontier where law and order were often home-spun enterprises, died with the execution of Tom Horn in Cheyenne, Wyoming on November 20, 1903. Tom was sentenced to death for the murder of a fourteen-year-old boy.
Tom Horn is a 1980 American Western film directed by William Wiard and starring Steve McQueen as the legendary lawman, outlaw and gunfighter Tom Horn. It was based on Horn's own writings.
Mar 28, 1980 · Tom Horn: Directed by William Wiard. With Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush. An ex-army scout is hired by ranchers to kill cattle rustlers but he gets into trouble with the corrupt local officials when he's suspected of killing a boy.
Aug 1, 2008 · Incompetence is not a word to associate with Tom Horn, for from his teenage years until his death, he more than once proved he was the opposite. Of course, the area in which he showed the most competence (and for which he is best known) was in killing range rustlers from ambush.
Tom Horn had a wild reputation. But there's doubt as to whether he really shot young Willie Nickell, the crime for which he was hanged. We investigate.
Tom Horn arrived in Arizona in 1875 and worked as a teamster, driving a stage between Santa Fe and Prescott. During his time with scout Al Sieber and the Apaches, Horne learned how to survive in the harsh frontier and how to stalk an adversary.
