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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.
Feb 3, 2024 · American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming Tom Horn was officially a “range detective” but was better known as a gunman for hire in the American Old West. Picture the old American “Wild West.” Scenes likely come to mind of gun-slinging cowboys and drunken fights in saloons with swinging doors, an image that was perpetuated by Western movies.
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.
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.
Tom Horn has 32 books on Goodreads with 1434 ratings. Tom Horn’s most popular book is Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter.
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.
Oct 10, 2023 · Cowboy and \“cattle detective\” Tom Horn was employed by ranchers in southeastern Wyoming to discourage cattle rustlers. His life was cut short by the hangman’s noose after he was found guilty of shooting a fourteen-year-old boy.
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