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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.
Tom Horn, a legendary frontier scout and tracker who helped capture Geronimo, drifts around the quickly-disappearing Western frontier. The story begins as he rides into a small town and provokes prizefighter Jim Corbett, ending up in a livery stable, unconscious and badly bruised.
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.
Nov 16, 2009 · On November 20, 1903, the infamous hired killer Tom Horn is hanged for having allegedly murdered Willie Nickell, the 14-year-old son of a southern Wyoming sheep rancher.
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.
May 20, 2014 · Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on November 20, 1903, for the ambush killing of 14-year-old Willie Nickell. The debate on his guilt or innocence is still going on. Dean F. Krakel, author of The Saga of Tom Horn, believed Horn did shoot Nickell in a case of mistaken identity.
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.
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Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter, Written by Himself, Together with His Letters and Statements by His Friends: A Vindication. On November 20, 1903, Tom Horn was hanged in...
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