This post is a part of our series on Tom Horn – full collection of links at the bottom of the page. An ominous killing in the northwestern Colorado Brown’s Hole region struck the area in mid-1900. Even more sinister was the plot that lay behind it. Two small cattlemen, Matt Rash and Isam Dart, […]

This post is a part of our series on Tom Horn – full collection of links at the bottom of the page. Tom Horn was discharged from civilian service in the army (he had served with distinction in the Spanish-American War) in the early fall of 1898. A period of recuperation from the “Cuban fever” […]

This post is a part of our series on Tom Horn – full collection of links at the bottom of the page. “That’s the man that killed Daddy.” William Lewis was not the last name tied to killings allegedly carried out by Tom Horn. The second homesteader to be killed was Fred U. Powell. Old […]

This post is a part of our series on Tom Horn – full collection of links at the bottom of the page. “whenever everything else fails, I have a system which never does.” -Tom Horn No better man could have been better than Tom Horn to investigate the cattle thievery that was occurring northwest of […]

This post is a part of our series on Tom Horn – full collection of links at the bottom of the page. “no better man could be found for the work” Frank M. Canton, who had himself been a deputy U.S. marshal and sheriff of Johnson County and who subsequently lost an election to rustler […]