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Chip Carlson has spent decades researching the life and times of Tom Horn, and it has been a labor of love. As a result of this work he has assembled what is likely to be the definitive book on the famous gunman in a readable page-turner that is sure to both inform and entertain. Dr. Phil Roberts, University of Wyoming |
Who was Tom Horn: a Wild West man-hunter of a Wild West man-killer? Child-killer or framed for the murder of Willie Nickell? The evidence seems to point both ways, but researcher and biographer Chip Carlson has finally found answers to satisfy everyone. Leon C. Metz, author of John Wesley Hardin: Dark Angel of Texas and past president of Western Writers of America
Tom Horn was a famous frontier detective with a dark side that led to a controversial conviction and his being hanged for the shooting of a homesteaders young son. Carlson examines Horns checkered past and raises strong questions about his guilt. Elmer Kelton, voted All-Time Best Western Author by the Western Writers of America
Chip Carlson knows more about Tom Horn than any person living. Dr. Gene M. Gressley, University of Wyoming
I have lived about fifteen ordinary lives. I would like to have had somebody who saw my past and could picture it to the public. It would be the most God damn interesting reading in the country. Tom Horn
With findings never before published, Cheyenne author Chip Carlsons 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, Carlsons third book (and second on Tom Horn), he points to the probable killer of Willie Nickell.
Other historical findings Carlson now divulges include:
" Who were Tom Horns other victims?
" Was there collusion on the part of three governors in two Colorado murders?
" How could the jury return a verdict of guilty in Tom Horns trial in the face of evidence that someone else was the killer?
" What role did the Denver Post play in Tom Horns conviction?
" Why did Tom Horns parents flee to Canada?
" Was there jury tampering and bribery?
" What was the true role of schoolteacher Glendolene Kimmell, and where did she end her years?
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