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Tom Horn: Competent and a Killer

by | Aug 1, 2008 | Travel & Preservation

Trailing Tom from Memphis, Missouri, to Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Incompetence is not a word to associate with Tom Horn, for from his teenage years until his death, he more than once proved he was the opposite. Of course, the area in which he showed the most competence (and for which he is best known) was in killing range rustlers from ambush. Born in 1860 to Thomas and Mary Horn, then living in northeast Missouri where they farm


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