Editor’s note: Loveland area history writer Kenneth Jessen has written a series of stories about notable Black people in Colorado history in recognition of Black History Month. Isom Dart had this ...
When Tom Horn was about to be hanged on Nov. 20, 1903, he realized several people present were tense, including Laramie County Sheriff Ed Smalley. "Don't be nervous boys," Horn said. "You're only ...
On this day, Oct. 22, in 1903, Tom Horn, cowboy detective and assassin, was hanged in Wyoming for the murder of a 14-year-old boy in a case that is still debated today. Horn also has the distinction ...
CHEYENNE — Tom Horn's saga kicks up the dust even today, more than 100 years after he swung from the gallows in Cheyenne. Some view him as the last vestige of the cowboy way of life in the old ...
When historian Larry Ball thinks about the autobiography of Tom Horn, he’s concluded that the infamous western character “felt no responsibility to tell the truth.” If that was the case, then Ball has ...
CHEYENNE – In 1902, legal experts of the day predicted that Tom Horn’s murder trial would be the most sensational criminal case in the history of Wyoming. “I think it’s proven to be so,” John W. Davis ...
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WFSU’s Mike Plummer meets up with the Big Bend Bushwhackers to see Cowboy Action Shooting. The reality of the old west with names like Bat Masterson, Tom Horn, “Buffalo Bill” Cody, and “Wild Bill” ...