The Trial of Tom Horn

by John W. Davis

Book Overview

For weeks in 1902 it commanded headlines. All of Wyoming and much of the West followed the trial of Tom Horn for the murder of a fourteen-year-old boy. John W. Davis's book, the only full-length account of the trial, places it in perspective as part of a larger struggle for control of Wyoming's grazing land. Davis also portrays an enigmatic defendant who, more than a century after his conviction and hanging, perplexes us still.

Tom Horn...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806167513
• ISBN13: 9780806167510
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"