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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.
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 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. [2] [3] [4] Plot. Tom Horn, a legendary frontier scout and tracker who helped capture Geronimo, drifts around the quickly-disappearing Western frontier.
In September 1993, a mock trial in Wyoming found Horn innocent, pointing to the fact that the original prosecution had only an alcohol-induced confession, no witnesses, and weak evidence. Horn was said to have committed 17 killings as a hired gunman during his lifetime.
Jun 12, 2006 · The central figure in that controversy is Tom Horn, a well-known stock detective who previously had been implicated in the murders of four rustlers in Wyoming and Colorado before being hanged for a crime that many historians believe he did not commit — even though Horn had claimed, ‘Killing men is my specialty.
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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