TOM HORN: THE TRUE STORY OF A WESTERN LEGEND

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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"Tom Horn: The True Story of a Western Legend": He was the man who Geronimo trusted and respected enough to arrange his surrender to Gatewood and Miles. He was there when Ed Schefflin discovered a rich load of gold and gave Tombstone its name. In his life he was a scout and interpreter for the US Cavalry, a Pinkerton Detective, a Sheriff, a Rancher, and a bounty hunter for the Wyoming Cattleman's Association. As a bounty hunter, he was a man crime deterrent against rustlers, but in 1901 his kill for hire work made him a perfect foil for a set-up, and he was framed for the killing of a 14 year old boy. This is his story, along with the story of the American West in its heyday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you very much.
0:30.0	When he drifted in the shine, the spring in 92, he had quite a reputation, the name
0:49.1	Ol' Cal Boister.
0:51.1	I said he'd been a law man, it's some New Mexico town, and he was there, but he wouldn't
1:02.7	mind when he rolled over on a moan down.
1:08.4	One of my most treasured belongings is a cowboy print by Charles Russell, showing a Montana
1:13.2	cowboy at work gathering some mustangs.
1:16.5	It's dated March 12, 1919, Great Falls, Montana, and under the artwork it reads this way.
1:24.0	Dear Mr. George Far, I received your kind invitation to attend the stock growers meeting
1:29.0	at Miles, and I'll be there with the rest of the reps.
1:32.8	Cal folks are scarce now, but I'm glad of a chance to meet the few that still live.
1:38.2	Most of my old friends either rode for or owned irons.
1:42.0	Many of them across the big range, but they left tracks in history that the farmer can't
1:46.1	plow under.
1:47.4	Good or bad, they were regular men, and America's last frontiersman, with thanks and best wishes,
1:54.2	Charles Russell.
1:56.0	It was written 16 years after Tom Horn, a true cowboy and frontiersman who rode for the
2:01.3	brand, was hung from a gallows in Cheyenne, Wyoming for the murder of a 14-year-old boy, a
2:07.3	murder which he may not have committed.
2:10.3	Horn was at that time a bounty hunter for the Cattleman's Association, and in 1902 people
2:15.2	were no longer in need of frontier justice, as they had been in recent years past.
2:20.7	Horn wasn't anachronism, it was a new 20th century, and his kind was better left to history.
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