I, Tom Horn

by Henry, Will

• ISBN13: 9781585475131
• ISBN10: 1585475130
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Center Point Pub

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

The Beginning	11	(5)
BOOK ONE
Out There	16	(7)
Stump Hill	23	(10)
Sam Griggs	33	(5)
My Father	38	(6)
Kansas City	44	(8)
Santa Fe	52	(8)
Pajarita Morena	60	(8)
The Hero	68	(7)
Something Strange	75	(4)
Hello Prescott	79	(6)
Seebie's Boy	85	(9)
Miss Pet	94	(5)
BOOK TWO
San Carlos	99	(9)
Sieber's Mule	108	(6)
Apache Bloodsmell	114	(7)
The Centipede	121	(9)
Sister Sawn	130	(5)
Tizwin Trail	135	(9)
Talking Boy	144	(7)
Into Apacheria	151	(4)
Chikisin, Brother	155	(4)
Sweet Nopal	159	(10)
Yaqui Bride	169	(8)
Scheflin's Ledge	177	(6)
Tombstone Summer	183	(4)
Geronimo Again	187	(17)
Mary Cornmeal	204	(13)
Closing Up	217	(6)
Cibicu Creek	223	(6)
Bedonkohe Breakout	229	(7)
Contrabandista Spring	236	(10)
Skeleton Canyon	246	(6)
Ending Place	252	(5)
BOOK THREE
Pinkerton Detour	257	(9)
The Horsethief	266	(8)
Yellow Journals	274	(8)
Jim Hicks	282	(24)
Big Pasture	306	(5)
Miss Kimmell	311	(5)
Gun Talk	316	(11)
Caliber .30-30	327	(9)
Smooth People	336	(6)
Dark Horseman	342	(5)
Gravel Blood	347	(16)
Little Flowers	363	(10)
Glendolene's Letter	373	(9)
Joe LeFors	382	(8)
Yours Truly	390	(4)
Bad Business	394	(14)
Sheriff Smalley	408	(4)
Lawyer Rowells	412	(10)
Jail Break	422	(12)
Barabbas's Visitor	434	(3)
God's Padre	437	(11)
Going Home	448	(8)
Beyond the Ending	456