Tom Horn. Blood On The Moon. Dark History Of The Murderous Cattle Detective.

CHIP CARLSON

Publication: High Plains Press, 2001, Glendo

First edition. 8vo. Limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by the author. Also signed by Larry D. Ball, who provided the foreword. This is copy 489. Red cloth, gold stamping on front cover and spine, 379 [2]pp., foreword, preface, introduction, illustrated, afterword, appendices, endnotes, bibliography, acknowledgments, index. Foreword by Larry D. Ball. Dust jacket blurbs by Elmer Kelton, Leon C. Metz, Dr. Phil Roberts, and Dr. Gene M. Gressley. One of the more notorious of the range detectives and the pre-eminent name in Wyoming history, Horn operated with a free-hand until he was arrested for the 1901 murder of the fourteen year-old son of a sheep-ranching settler. The murder and questionable nature of Horn's conviction still ignite firestorms of controversy among historians and Wyomingites in general. With new findings never before published, the author questions whether Horn was actually railroaded for a murder he did not commit, but could have. The author also points to a probable killer of Willie Nickell. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 51681