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Thomas "Tom" Horn Jr.
November 21, 1861 โ November 20, 1903Convicted 1902
Buried at:
Columbia Cemetery , Boulder, CO ยท Marked grave at Columbia Cemetery (headstone paid for by rancher John C. Coble). Find a Grave memorial #506.
Criminal History (Public Record)
Convicted in 1902 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, of the first-degree murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell near Iron Mountain, Wyoming. The conviction rested largely on a contested confession. The Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed the verdict, and Horn was hanged in Cheyenne on November 20, 1903.
Background
Tom Horn was a frontier scout, Pinkerton agent, and range detective in the American West who became a hired gunman during the cattle-range conflicts of Wyoming and Colorado. The guilt question in the Nickell case has been debated by historians, but the murder conviction stood and he was executed for it.
Find a Grave memorial #506 (Columbia Cemetery, Boulder, CO)
Chip Carlson, "Tom Horn: Blood on the Moon" (High Plains Press, 2001)
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