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The Trial of Tom Horn (Paperback)
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The Trial of Tom Horn (Paperback)
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For weeks in 1902 it commanded headlines. All of Wyoming and much
of the West followed the trial of Tom Horn for the murder of a
fourteen-year-old boy. John W. Davis's book, the only full-length
account of the trial, places it in perspective as part of a larger
struggle for control of Wyoming's grazing land. Davis also portrays
an enigmatic defendant who, more than a century after his
conviction and hanging, perplexes us still. Tom Horn was one of the
most fascinating figures in the history of the West. Employed as a
Pinkerton and then as a range detective, he had a reputation as a
loner and a braggart with a brutal approach to law enforcement even
before he was accused of murdering young Willie Nickell. Cattlemen
saw Horn as protecting their way of life, but most people in
Wyoming saw him as a hired assassin, an instrument of oppression by
cattle barons willing to use violent intimidation to protect their
assets. The story began on July 18, 1901, when Willie Nickell was
shot by a gunman lying in ambush; the killer was apparently after
Willie's father, who had brought sheep into the area. Six months
later Tom Horn was arrested. The trial pitted the Laramie County
district attorney against a crack team of defense lawyers hired by
big cattlemen. Against all predictions, the jury found Horn guilty
of first-degree murder. Despite appeals that went all the way to
the state supreme court and the governor, Horn was hanged in
Cheyenne in 1903. The trial and conviction of Tom Horn marked a
major milestone in the hard-fought battle against vigilantism in
Wyoming. Davis, himself a trial lawyer, has mined court documents
and newspaper articles to dissect the trial strategies of the
participating attorneys. His detailed account illuminates a larger
narrative of conflict between the power of wealth and the forces of
law and order in the West.
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