I, Tom Horn

Will Henry

U of Nebraska Press, 1996 - Fiction - 339 pages

In I, Tom Horn, originally published in 1975, Will Henry presents a fictional autobiography of Tom Horn that answers decisively the question?did Tom Horn kill fourteen-year-old Willie Kickell, or was he framed?



Horn was a cavalry scout in Arizona Territory during the last Apache campaigns, a champion rodeo rider, a Pinkerton, and finally a stock detective in Wyoming. Known and feared as el hombre de sombra (the shadow man), Horn?s lifetime (1860?1903) spans one of the most colorful and tumultuous periods of the Old West. In this novel Will Henry provides a multidimensional portrait of Tom Horn as a man capable of humor, compassion, and love, and also one who could kill without the least remorse. This figure is set against equally compelling portraits of Al Sieber, chief of scouts under General Crook, and apache leaders in the Four Families of the Chiricahuas, names now fabled in American frontier history Nana, Chato, and Geronimo.

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The book is good and leads me to think that the man hired to deal with a ?"rustler" problem, firing a rifle from several hundred yards away, did kill the teenage boy. The fact that he didn't kill the ...

I, Tom Horn

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The multiple-award-winning Henry here takes on legendary cowboy Tom Horn in this 1975 fictional autobiography. Henry presents the character as a man capable of kindness and humor who could also kill without remorse.

Contents

• Out There: 3
• Sam Griggs: 16
• Kansas City: 25
• Pajarita Morena: 37
• Something Strange: 47
• Seebies: 55
• Miss: 61
• San Carlos: 67
• Siebers Mule: 73
• The Centipede: 83
• Sister Sawn: 90
• Talking: 101
• Chikisin Brother: 109
• Yaqui Bride: 119
• Scheflins Ledge: 127
• Tombstone Summer: 130
• Mary Commeal: 146
• Closing Up: 156
• Bedonkohe Breakout: 164
• Contrabandista Spring: 170
• Skeleton Canyon: 177
• Pinkerton Detour: 189
• The Horsethief: 195
• Yellow Journals: 201
• Jim Hicks: 208
• Big Pasture: 225
• Gun Talk: 232
• Caliber 3030: 240
• Smooth People: 247
• Gravel Blood: 255
• Little Flowers: 266
• Glendolenes Letter: 274
• Joe LeFors: 280
• Yours Truly: 287
• Sheriff Smalley: 300
• Jail Break: 310
• Barabbass Visitor: 318
• Going Home: 328
• Beyond the Ending: 334

About the author

"Will Henry" was one of the bylines used by Henry Wilson Allen; the other was "Clay Fisher." He was a five-time winner of the Golden Spur Award from the Western Writers of America and a recipient of the Levi Strauss Award for lifetime achievement. His Will Henry novels are known for their basis in historical fact and their use of realistic American Indian characters.

Bibliographic information

• Title: I, Tom Horn
• Author: Will Henry
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: U of Nebraska Press, 1996
• ISBN: 0803272839, 9780803272835
• Length: 339 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Westerns