On November 20, 1903, Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming,
for the murder of a fourteen-year-old nester boy. Horn-army scout
and interpreter for Generals Willcox, Crook, and Miles in the
Apache wars, Pinkerton operative, cattle detective, and "King of
Cowboys"-was hanged like a common criminal, many think
mistakenly.
His own account of his life, written while he was in prison and
first published in 1904, is not really a vindication, says Dean
Krakel in his introduction. "While the appendix is spiked with
interesting letters, testimonials, and transcripts, they don't
really add up to anything in the way of an explanation of what
really happened."
Regardless of Horn's guilt or innocence, his story, beginning
when he was a runaway Missouri farm boy, provides a firsthand look
at scout Al Sieber in action, at the military both great and small,
at the wily Geronimo, the renegade Natchez, and old Chief Nana of
the Apaches.
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