Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter, Horn Tom
Автор: Davis John W. Название: The Trial of Tom Horn ISBN: 0806152184 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806152189 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5010.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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 was one of the most fascinating figures in the history of the West. Employed as a Pinkerton and then as a range detective, he had a reputation as a loner and a braggart with a brutal approach to law enforcement even before he was accused of murdering young Willie Nickell. Cattlemen saw Horn as protecting their way of life, but most people in Wyoming saw him as a hired assassin, an instrument of oppression by cattle barons willing to use violent intimidation to protect their assets. The story began on July 18, 1901, when Willie Nickell was shot by a gunman lying in ambush; the killer was apparently after Willie's father, who had brought sheep into the area. Six months later Tom Horn was arrested. The trial pitted the Laramie County district attorney against a crack team of defense lawyers hired by big cattlemen. Against all predictions, the jury found Horn guilty of first-degree murder. Despite appeals that went all the way to the state supreme court and the governor, Horn was hanged in Cheyenne in 1903. The trial and conviction of Tom Horn marked a major milestone in the hard-fought battle against vigilantism in Wyoming. Davis, himself a trial lawyer, has mined court documents and newspaper articles to dissect the trial strategies of the participating attorneys. His detailed account illuminates a larger narrative of conflict between the power of wealth and the forces of law and order in the West.
Автор: Horn, Tom Название: Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter ISBN: 1496186257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496186256 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1033.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Horn Tom, Ainslie Vivienne Название: Sinnestra`s Fury ISBN: 1912677865 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912677863 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3711.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Blade of the Spider's Kiss had mortally wounded the demon known as Sinnestra, but the Spider's Bite had not yet proven fatal. Lady Rosa looked to the horizon with fear, knowing that a storm was coming. But it wasn't the weather that had her so deeply concerned. Sinnestra was coming for vengeance.
Still little was truly known about the demoness or what she was capable of. The gnomish wizard Frendlestixx the Great believed that the Great Library Arcanum in the coastal city of Freeport held the key to defeating her.
Bekka and her companions set out to find a way to stop the demoness once and for all. But while they are gone Sinnestra strikes at the heart of Kensington Castle and leaves a trail of blood in her wake...
Sinnestra's Fury ups the notch of danger, proving that Vespia is not a land for the faint of heart.
Автор: Horn Tom Название: The Hollows ISBN: 191267758X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912677580 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2400.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Hollows was a mystery to Kat St. Claire and her younger brother Bobby. Their parents never discussed the mountain town where they were from. Nor had they ever mentioned their families. All Kat knew was that her mother's sister Abigail had sent her the charm she wore around her neck as a present for her thirteenth birthday. She'd worn it for the past three years, her parents saying that she couldn't take it off for safety. It is a white-gold pentagram within a circle. There are those that believe it is a Talisman...said to ward off the mystic pull of the moon and prevent lycanthropy. On the back of the charm is etched a simple phrase in Latin: Cave Canum which translates to 'Beware the dog' if you can believe it.
Kat always thought that the whole thing was a load of crap. In the days ahead she would find out just how wrong a girl could be....
Автор: Jourdan Bob Название: Diamond Fields and Death: The Framing of Tom Horn ISBN: 1450294537 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781450294539 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3508.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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When Jim Keaton learns that his brother Billy has died and has left him an inheritance, Jim leaves his home in Del Rio, Texas, a sleepy border town along the Rio Grande River, and travels to Denver. He hears about his brother's dealings with the diamond fields and sets out to investigate.
Jim finds himself settling into the corner where Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming meet. While looking for the diamond field, he runs into hardheaded Ed Cole, a man set in his ways who uses public ground for sheep grazing. Befriending Cole places Jim in the middle of a nasty range dispute that could become deadly at any moment.
Suspicion arises when Jim recognizes Tom Horn, a former Indian scout but now a range detective with a reputation for eliminating rustlers without a trial. Horn is working on Cold Spring Mountain masquerading as a man named James Hicks. When men start dying, blame is placed on Horn. Only Jim knows the truth, and he's not sure he can or wants to handle that burden.
Автор: Ball Larry D. Название: Tom Horn in Life and Legend ISBN: 0806151757 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806151755 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3129.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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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 (1860-1903) 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 Horn's 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. Horn's 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 Horn's 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 Horn's reputation.
Ball's 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.
Автор: Davis John W. Название: The Trial of Tom Horn ISBN: 0806167513 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806167510 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3129.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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 was one of the most fascinating figures in the history of the West. Employed as a Pinkerton and then as a range detective, he had a reputation as a loner and a braggart with a brutal approach to law enforcement even before he was accused of murdering young Willie Nickell. Cattlemen saw Horn as protecting their way of life, but most people in Wyoming saw him as a hired assassin, an instrument of oppression by cattle barons willing to use violent intimidation to protect their assets. The story began on July 18, 1901, when Willie Nickell was shot by a gunman lying in ambush; the killer was apparently after Willie's father, who had brought sheep into the area. Six months later Tom Horn was arrested. The trial pitted the Laramie County district attorney against a crack team of defense lawyers hired by big cattlemen. Against all predictions, the jury found Horn guilty of first-degree murder. Despite appeals that went all the way to the state supreme court and the governor, Horn was hanged in Cheyenne in 1903. The trial and conviction of Tom Horn marked a major milestone in the hard-fought battle against vigilantism in Wyoming. Davis, himself a trial lawyer, has mined court documents and newspaper articles to dissect the trial strategies of the participating attorneys. His detailed account illuminates a larger narrative of conflict between the power of wealth and the forces of law and order in the West.
