4. CHEYENNE, WY In January 1902, Tom Horn came to Cheyenne, Wyoming, to do a little talkin’. Too much, as it turned out. Deputy U.S. Marshal Joe Lefors persuaded Horn to come to the marshal’s office on the second floor of a building on the Concord Block. Supposedly, they were meeting to discuss a Montana stock detective job for Horn. But the conversation turned to the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell six months earlier. Lefors provided some liquid libation for the always-thirsty


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