Killing men is my specialty. I look at it as a business proposition, and I think I have a corner on the market.

These are the words of Tom Horn, a frontier scout turned assassin for the highest bidder.

As a young man, Tom walked the rough cow towns of Dodge and Newton before cutting his teeth fighting Apache down in Arizona.

Graduated to the range wars, and in time,

Horn would put his talents to use for the wealthy cattle barons of Wyoming,

possibly killing as many as 17 men in the process.

Or at least he did before being executed for a murder that, to this day,

many believe he did not commit.

My name's Josh, and this is the Wild West

extravaganza. Thomas H. Horn Jr. was born in Scotland County, Missouri on November 21st, 1860.

His father, Tom Sr. was, at one point, the largest landowner in the county.

In addition to raising livestock, the elder Horn speculated in farm equipment,

owned a hardware store, and even helped to establish a bank there in the nearby town of Memphis.

He and his wife were

devout members of a religious sect known as the Disciples of Christ, which meant that they held

their children to a somewhat stringent code, one that didn't hold much weight on sparing the rod.

That being the case, young Tom Jr. endured his fair share of corporal punishment. It didn't take,

though. Despite the

peity of his parents, Tom wasn't exactly the most obedient child that ever graced northeastern Missouri.

He'd routinely skip out on both church and school, and would often go missing for days at a time,

just wander in the forest with his loyal dog, Shedric. Quote, I would still out the gun and take the dog

and hunt all day, Sunday, and many a night through the week, knowing full well that whenever I did

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