Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter: Written by Himself, Together with His Letters and Statements.: A Vindication (Western Frontier Library). Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter: Written by Himself, Together with His Letters and Statements.: A Vindication (Western Frontier Library)

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.

Tom was born in Kermit, Texas in 1960 and raised all over the Great American Southwest, never staying in one place for too long. His father worked for the El Paso Natural Gas Company, a job that necessitated frequent moves for increased opportunities. Tom graduated from High School from an American Boarding School on the island of Mallorca, Spain in 1978; his family was living in Algeria at the time. After graduation, he spent the next twelve years in the Navy. Diagnosed as an insulin-dependent diabetic, he was forced to change careers. He worked in the construction industry as a Union Pipefitter often working on launch complexes at the Kennedy Space Center. Tom currently lives in Satellite Beach, Florida with his wife of over forty years. From a very young age, he dreamed of becoming a published author and never stopped scribbling away on notepads. This is his fourth novel published by Purple Parrot Publishing, proof that 'Dreams don't have to stay that way.'https://www.tomhornauthor.com/