Tom Horn in Life and Legend Ball Larry D.Paperback
Tom Horn in Life and Legend Ball Larry D.Paperback Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman,…
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Tom Horn in Life and Legend Ball Larry D.Paperback
Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, and assassin, this darkly enigmatic figure has fascinated Americans ever since his death by hanging the day before his forty-third birthday. Tom Horn (1860-1903) was both.
He fought in the last major battle with the Apaches on U.S. In this masterful historical biography, Larry Ball, a distinguished historian of western lawmen and outlaws, presents the definitive account of Horn's career.Horn became a civilian in the Apache wars when he was still in his early twenties. soil and chased the Indians into Mexico with General George Crook.
He bragged about murdering renegades, and the brutality of his approach to law and order foreshadows his controversial career as a Pinkerton detective and his trial for murder in