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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.
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.
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.
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 was a scout, cowboy, soldier, range detective, and Pinkerton agent before he turned to work as a hired killer in Wyoming. Thomas “Tom” Horn, Jr., was born near Memphis, Missouri, on November 21, 1860, to Thomas Horn, Sr. and Mary Ann Maricha Miller Horn on their family farm.
SHARLOT HALL MUSEUM. Tom Horn: Misunderstood Cowboy or Deadly Assassin?: Part 1. May 08, 2021. By Eric Jacobson. Much has been written and filmed about a complex and colorful cowboy named Tom Horn. Was he the upstanding citizen he claimed to be, or was he the criminal portrayed in print and film?
