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The Treacherous Murder of Captain Emmett Crawford

by | Sep 28, 2016 | True West Blog

In January, 1902 when Tom Horn was being interrogated by U. S. Deputy Marshal Joe Lefors regarding the killing of young Willie Nickle he boasted that he killed his first man when he was twenty-six referring to him as a "coarse son of a bitch." One version of the story says it was over a Mexican prostitute. However, this was another example his tall tales. Larry Ball's excellent book Tom Horn: In Lif


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