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Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860â1903) was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, and assassin, this darkly enigmatic figure has fascinated Americans ever since his death by hanging the day before his forty-third birthday. In this masterful historical biography, Larry Ball, a distinguished historian of western lawmen and outlaws, presents the definitive account of Hornâs career.Horn became a civilian in the Apache wars when he was still in his early twenties. He fought in the last major battle with the Apaches on U.S. soil and chased the Indians into Mexico with General George Crook. He bragged about murdering renegades, and the brutality of his approach to law and order foreshadows his controversial career as a Pinkerton detective and his trial for murder in Wyoming. Having worked as a hired gun and a range detective in the years after the Johnson County War, he was eventually tried and hanged for killing a fourteen-year-old boy. Hornâs guilt is still debated.To an extent no previous scholar has managed to achieve, Ball distinguishes the truth about Horn from the numerous legends. Both the facts and their distortions are revealing, especially since so many of the untruths come from Hornâs own autobiography. As a teller of tall tales, Horn burnished his own reputation throughout his life. In spite of his services as a civilian scout and packer, his behavior frightened even his lawless companions. Although some writers have tried to elevate him to the top rung of frontier gun wielders, questions still shadow Hornâs reputation.Ballâs study concludes with a survey of Horn as described by historians, novelists, and screenwriters since his own time. These portrayals, as mixed as the facts on which they are based, show a continuing fascination with the life and legend of Tom Horn.
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9780806144252 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, May 19, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws.
Paperback:
9780806151755 | Reprint edition (Univ of Oklahoma Pr, July 1, 2015), cover price $19.95
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9780910037402 | Arizona Historical Society, September 1, 2000, cover price $34.95
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9780910037419 | Arizona Historical Society, July 1, 2000, cover price $34.95
Product Description: First released in 1978 and still the best account of territorial law enforcement, this book presents a thoroughly researched, well-documented, and entertaining history of United States marshals in New Mexico and Arizona during the tumultuous territorial years...read more
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9780826306173 | Reprint edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, March 1, 1999), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: First released in 1978 and still the best account of territorial law enforcement, this book presents a thoroughly researched, well-documented, and entertaining history of United States marshals in New Mexico and Arizona during the tumultuous territorial years.
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9780826313461 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $45.00
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9780826317001 | Reprint edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, April 1, 1996), cover price $35.00
Product Description: Isaac C. Parker, the stern U.S. judge for Indian Territory from 1875 to 1896, brought law and order to a lawless frontier region. He held court in the border city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, but his jurisdiction extended over the Indian tribal lands to the west...read more
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9780806128399 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Isaac C.
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9780874042238 | Texas Western Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Elfego Baca in Life and Legend
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9780930677008 | Arkansas State Univ, May 1, 1985, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Book by Ball, Larry D.
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