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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.
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.
