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Tom Horn : blood on the moon : dark history of the murderous cattle detective / Chip Carlson ; with a foreword by Larry D. Ball.
Author
Carlson, Chip
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
[Glendo, Wyo.] : High Plains Press, ©2001.
Description
379 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits ; 24 cm
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E83.88.H67 C37 2001
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Wyoming
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Scouts (Reconnaissance)
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Wyoming
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Biography
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Apache Indians
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Wars, 1883-1886
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Horn, Tom 1860-1903
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Indigenous Studies
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Biographies
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Summary note
Did Tom Horn kill Willie Nickell? He was a death sentence to rustlers and the devil incarnate to homesteaders in late nineteenth-century Wyoming. Did Tom Horn commit the 1901 murder of the fourteen-year-old son of a sheep-owning homesteader who had stolen from the cattle barons ranges? If not, who did? Cheyenne author Chip Carlson, in this, his third book, answers these questions and others with the monumental results of more than ten years of research into primary sources. Who were Tom Horn s other victims? Was there collusion on the part of three governors in two Colorado murders? How could the jury return a verdict of guilty in Tom Horn s trial in the face of evidence that someone else was the killer? Why did Tom Horn s parents flee to Canada? Was there jury tampering and bribery? Why did Tom Horn say I would kill him and be done with him? What was the role of schoolteacher Glendolene Kimmell, and where did she end her years? Tom Horn, the most notorious of Wyoming s range detectives and a pre-eminent name in Wyoming history, operated unchecked until he was arrested for the murder of Willie Nickell. The murder and questionable nature of Horn s conviction still ignite firestorms of controversy in Wyoming. Before he was hanged Horn said, I have lived about fifteen ordinary lives. I would like to have had somebody who saw my past and could picture it to the public. It would be the most god damn interesting reading in the country. Now author Chip Carlson provides that reading.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references ([356]-364) and index.
Contents
Foreword: A conspicuous place in history / Larry D. Ball ; Introduction: the controversy is two-fold
Innocent!
Troublesome
Bound to see trouble
Black, shifty eyes
Considerable cattle stealing
No better man
A system that never fails
The desired effect
No cure, no pay
Kill him and be done with it
Don't say anything
The general welfare
More trouble ahead
Killed to get them off the range
His intention was to get me
Nobody's family is safe
He was going to kill me on sight
Of course they had trouble
Pretty pronounced thieves
A confession!
Hung before I left the ranch
I knew perfectly well what I was saying
Guilty!
He talked too much
How is the Horn case?
Law and justice?
Escaped!
Hanged by the neck
Terrifying, ruthless, a fine fellow
Afterword: He killed plenty of other people
Appendices: A: Glendolene Kimmell's affidavit ; B: Judges T. Blake Kennedy and Ewing Kerr
Endnotes.
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ISBN
0931271584 ((hard ; : alk. paper))
9780931271588 ((hard ; : alk. paper))
0931271592 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780931271595 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0931271606 ((collectors ; : alk. paper))
9780931271601 ((collectors ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2001024830
OCLC
47002141
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