Talk:Tom Horn

message: I checked a couple of sources and they both said that Horn's base in the Chugwater area was at Coble's Frontier Land & Cattle Company.  I guess that doesn't really mean that Coble hired Horn, but on the other hand, I couldn't find anything linking Bosler and Horn; they probably knew each other, but we would need sources that proved a more substantial link. CosmicPenguin (talk• WP:WYOHelp!) 03:06, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bosler vs Coble? 

message: :
"Horn's exploits as an assassin far overshadowed any other accomplishments he made during his lifetime, including during his time as a scout in tracking Apaches in southeastern Arizona Territory, southwestern New Mexico Territory, and into the states of Sonora and Chihuahua in northern Mexico along the Sierra Madre Occidental."
This assertion does not examine the who, why, what, where and when.  Was Tom Horn realy an assassin?  If so who did he assasinate, where did it happen, was he tried for the murders, how many murders did he committ to overshadow his life story?  There are way too many questions raised with this assertion to leave it as a mere "statement of fact."  Placing a geographical area where he might have acted as an assassin does not complete any argument that he was in fact a cold killer.  His life as a lawman and Pinkerton don't seem to be overshadowed, they have been cited succinctly.  This article needs more more information on the overshadowing aspect, please.
I am no Tom Horn authority by any stretch of the imagination, but asserting that he was an assassin without describing the people he killed leaves the information seeker wondering what the author is talking about.  I came looking for general information on Horn and I am suddenly confronted with "new" information I have never heard before.  The problem being the assertion is unclear.  The article talks about situations where he was acquitted of murder and of course he was finally hanged for an alleged murder, are these the reasons his life is over shadowed by the spectre of assasination?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Garandguy (talk • contribs) 16:45, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Assassin also usually implies political goal. Agree this assertion re: Horn needs specific cited source from a verifiable RS, not some website.Parkwells (talk) 17:59, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Assassin or not? >>> Neutrality Question

message: Accrding to the article and its source Horn was born in Etna, Missouri. However, I ran across another source, The Encyclopedia of the Old West that quoted a letter from his aunt stating Tom had actually been born in Ohio and moved to the Etna-Granger area at around age two. Here's a link to it. http://books.google.com/books?id=_249AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA235&dq=%22Etna,+Missouri%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KJDqUbn9MILu8QTP7YCQCA&ved=0CGAQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22Etna%2C%20Missouri%22&f=false
It's not a major deal in the overall article, just thought someone might want to do some more digging to make sure what we have is accurate. I'd "be bold" and do it myself, but I also "be busy" extremis with work on other articles. Ran across the discrep. and thought I'd bring it up. Sector001 (talk) 13:40, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthplace 

message: No one owns his memory; no museum is devoted to him. Chip Carlson, a historian who has published on Tom Horn, created the "Tom Horn/Tom Horn Story" websites, and also sells his most recent book there. This is his personal website devoted to Tom Horn.Parkwells (talk) 17:32, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: No "Official" Tom Horn site

message: Valid histories have been written about the era, Horn and his trial; these should be used as RS rather than "Thrilling Detective" website or similar. References should satisfy Wiki MOS standards for Reliable Sources and verifiability. Parkwells (talk) 17:32, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Questionable sources

message: "The story goes that he pinned one of the dead cowboy's ears at [??] the homesteaders as a warning." WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 13:02, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: please fix this

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thread_title: Assessment comment

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message: I did a number of searches in the "Chronicling America" Library of Congress database, and could find no reference to a massacre near Big Dry Creek, though I could find a lot about floods, and story repeated in several places of of a gang of horse thieves working there, and decamping and stealing a herd of horses on the way out.  Nine men being killed probably would have made papers somewhere. I did find with a google search, a reference to an apparently much later spinning of such a tale without any details. I'd also note that I have never seen anything to indicate that Tom Horn ever had anything to do with Clive Olive much less the killing of Luther M. Mitchell and Ami W. Ketchum.  That occurred in Nebraska, and is a long story in itself. Hypercallipygian (talk) 18:20, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big Dry Creek 

message: Where was his wife and children at the time of his death? 2600:1700:4E50:2EF0:949F:6DC:644E:7C5 (talk) 17:39, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Children