This post is a part of our series on Tom Horn – full collection of links at the bottom of the page. “there had been considerable cattle stealing” From deputy U.S. marshal to stock detective and sometime-sheriff was not a big jump. It may have been that Tom Horn was first hired as a stock […]

This post is a part of our series on Tom Horn – full collection of links at the bottom of the page. “not the type of man one liked to argue with.” It wasn’t long before more adventure seemed to seek Tom Horn out. Late in 1890 C. W. “Doc” Shores, a deputy U.S. marshal, […]

This post is a part of our series on Tom Horn – full collection of links at the bottom of the page. “ …anyone born in Missouri is bound to see trouble.” There might not have been a worse time to be born, or into a family whose father had already created enough trouble for […]

This post is a part of our series on Tom Horn – full collection of links at the bottom of the page. “Troublesome.” It was a word Tom Horn himself used, first to describe the times at his birth and his early years, and later to describe Willie Nickell’s father. It was appropriate. His father’s […]

This post is a part of our series on Tom Horn – full collection of links at the bottom of the page. “Innocent!” The word rang out like a gunshot in the crowded Cheyenne courtroom in September 1993, almost a hundred years after Tom Horn’s hanging for first-degree murder. Light is fading on the early […]