Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the murder
of Willie Nickell
Did Tom Horn Kill Willie Nickell?
He was a death sentence
to rustlers...
and the Devil incarnate
to homesteaders.
Tom Horn, the most notorious of Wyoming's range detectives and the preeminent name in Wyoming history, operated unchecked until he was arrested for the 1901 murder of the fourteen year-old son of a sheep-ranching settler. The murder and questionable nature of Horn's conviction still ignite firestorms of controversy among historians and Wyomingites in general. [read more]
With findings never before published, Cheyenne author Chip Carlson's monumental research draws the reader into questioning whether Tom Horn was actually railroaded for a murder he did not commit but could have. In this, Carlson's third book (and second on Tom Horn), he points to the probable killer of Willie Nickell.
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