Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter, By Himself

Composed while the army-scout-turned-range-war-assassin was awaiting execution for the murder of a fourteen-year-old-boy in Wyoming, Horn’s colorful autobiography provides an entertaining, if greatly embellished and frequently inaccurate, view of the Apache campaigns from the rear ranks. Horn may not have always done what he claims he did, but he was there and this alone commands our attention. His popular memoir also furnishes readers with ample evidence of the boastful temperament, common among frontier characters, that made him a legend in his own lifetime and, eventually, led him to the gallows. --Bruce J. Dinges.

Horn, Tom

Denver: The Louthan Book Company, 1904.

1904

317 p. incl. front. plates, ports., facsims. 19 cm.

eng

book

B9791 H81 1904 Sp Coll