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Tom Horn : blood on the moon : dark history of the murderous cattle detective
- Title
- 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.
- Publication
- [Glendo, Wyo.] : High Plains Press, ©2001.
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| Text | Use in library | E83.88.H67 C37 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 379 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0931271584
- 9780931271588
- 0931271592
- 9780931271595
- 0931271606
- 9780931271601
- LCCN
- 2001024830
- OCLC
- ocm47002141
- 47002141
- SCSB-1256424
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library