Tom Horn's Deadly Legacy: Range Wars & the Pinkertons 

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Hell yes!! Ok boys. The wait was long. Trust me I know. The medical system that did the biopsy got hacked and I didn't get intel till a few days ago. It is cancer, Squamous cell carcinoma. Chemo and radiation incoming. I can't tell you all what it meant to me to come back and see all the love a bunch of strangers poured on me. It moved me to tears. I love you goofy lot. Had a PET scan today. Results of that will give us what stage the cancer is at. I'll keep you posted. Thanks Josh, for creating this awesome group of people. Love you all.

Tom Horn. By, himself. One of the best books i have ever read.

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My favorite bedtime stories. Usually have to listen more than once

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I haven’t been this early since I had coffee brewing for Lewis and Clark when they finally got to the pacific.

It’s a cattleman’s paradise to hear Jake tell it. Sounds like damn wilderness if you ask me

Great research and storytelling.

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My grandfather testified in the trial. He worked at Iron Mountain and testified about what time of day he saw Tom at the stable. Part of the defense’s effort to show Tom was too far away to have made the ride from the Nickel homestead to the Koble ranch. His testimony is mentioned in Dean Krakel’s “Saga of Tom Horn.

Thanks Josh, love the stories!

One of my favorite Americans! Thank you for finally doing an episode on him! Thanks Josh for all your hard work! JJ -South Alabama (born in the formerly beautiful state of Colorado)

Thank you, Wild West Extravaganza for your generosity. Outstanding work with the video! Plus the humor was a nice touch. Anyway, I'm much appreciative.

If only Tom Horn could figure out how to use a semiautomatic pistol, he might have escaped.

Tom Horn is perhaps one of the most dangerous men in the wild west a lot of his murders were never mentioned. The ironic thing is he was hung for a crime he in all probability was innocent of. As a matter of fact he even went after and successfully killed men with charmed lives such as the black rustler I forget his name but he got out of scrape after scrape after scraping until he ran into Tom Horn. When they pay Tom Horn he was dedicated he said he would go days without eating. He said oh sometimes I would bring me a few eggs and bacon but he said there is many times I went days without eating. When I was on the trail I didn't stop until I got my man. Courses for is a gunfighter goes I don't guess he would get much credit most of his killings were done from ambush. Most of his victims died without ever knowing what killed them. No one on the planet no matter how tough they were back then wanted Tom Horn on the trail.

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I WAS ONCE A PINKERTON MAN. STILL HAVE BADGE. FRAMED WITH MY MILITARY POLICE BADGE. PEOPLE WHO LOOK AT THEM ARE AMAZED. WHY I DONT KNOW

Thanks for what u do josh. I always enjoy it.

The movie silverado reminds me of the johnson county war.Thank you for yet another superb video of the life and times of the old west.

Man, i was born in the wrong time. I wish i was riding the plains on my trusted horse, sipping on campfire coffee chunky with coffee grounds (John Wayne style, baby), stopping in some one horse town for a whisky, and backhanding a surly bartender because i dont take no lip from surly bartenders. Ahhh, that would be the good life. Instead im sitting here in my undies, listening to this podcast, and dreading the fact that i gotta go to work later.

He's been dead for 121 years, you don't have to say "allegedly"😆😂🤣

Tewksbury is definitely somewhere near Hobbiton. Actually the Tooks are from the Great Smials of Tuckborough, ruling Tookland in the Westfarthing of the Shire. 😂

There was a gunsmoke movie where Matt Dillion had fight the Tewksburys in the range war

The idea that you could once hire an "army" of hired killers in the US is mindblowing. I once saw a copy of Two Evil Isms in a used bookstore. Kicking myself for not buying it since Pinkertons/Baldwin Felts versus cold miners is a topic that fascinates me.

Men your videos are amazing and I really appreciate the effort you put into them. I hope your channel gets huge you for sure deserve it.anyways I hope the videos keep coming thanks

"Bunch of Hobbits running around" 😅 Very good....

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Politician....aka "crook". I'm freakin' dyin'🤣🤣🤣

Tom Horn was a stone killer for hire. That being said other killers, using his reputation, can blame him for their crimes

He sure doesn't look like a heavy handed killer. He looks more like a basic rancher with a few cattle, a house, and a wife. The eyes are distant and from the story, he is mental health degraded over time which normally is indicative of a traumatic childhood. Great stories, thank you!

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Another well researched telling.... Thank you.

Back in those days, life must've been tough for a schoolboy with a name like "Tewksbury." "Hey, look fellas, it's a Tewksbury ! Let's get him and give him a Wedgie !" (Or a Melvin....)

Wet mountain.....right next to broke back mountain.... near nut sack ridge....

I used to respect the Pinkertons, but I've learned more about them as I've absorbed more information and they did some really questionable stuff. Their willingness to essentially kill or shake down people for the right price is disappointing. Not only that but Allen Pinkertons tendency to tell the government that the confederate army was always bigger than the union army makes me wonder if he actually looked or just took McClellans word for it. Or even maybe he was sabotaging the union war effort but that's unlikely. Maybe he just was a nervous exagerator.

Good one. Went to young and through the area last year. The old store was for sale.

Something Tom Horn was probably familiar with, as well as a lot of other "lawmen" of the Old West. No one was ever "found innocent" at trial. They were found "not guilty". Not the same thing.

Just as i had given up on today im sure josh has put together top notch history

The Pinkerton 's in the beginning were the original Blackwater Security Company?

My sometime great grandfather was around for the Pleasent Valley War. He wasn't a part of the family feuds, but they were sheep ranchers near Globe, where my dad was born. Apparently he and his brothers shot a Mexican man and took his coffee, or so it's said. My great uncle wrote down what his grandfather told him about it, being freighters for a time in Texas before going to Globe. Wish I knew how I could verify these things better.

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I'm surprised O.J. never blamed Horn for what happened to his ex.

Cheyenne is not accurately portrayed in the Steve McQueen movie. The domed, state capitol was already built, they had a beautiful, stone train depot, the court house was built and they had electric street lights. Not a one horse town.

I just was next to the cemetery where Tom horn is buried Columbia cemetery,Boulder Colorado.

Real G's move in silence like lasagna- Lil Wayne. Nice reference

Tewkesbury is a nice town ! On the river Severn. Never seen an actual hobbit there, 😮

It may be hard but relevant photos would be cool 🤔

Tom horn would have a great time today.

It's good of ya to explain but I'd bet there's not a soul who listens to you that don't know who the Pinkerton are. Thanks I've been waiting on this. Love your channel

Josh, could you do a program on Cattle Kate of Wyoming?

Pinkerton intelligence in the War of Northern Agression was notoriously inaccurate. They frequently overestimated Confederate troop strength reinforcing the timidity of Federal generals and leading to countless missed opportunities.

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Tewkesbury is actually a town in a shire county, Gloucestershire...pronounced 'Glostershire' before you try to wrap your tongue around it 🙂 Another wonderfully narrated episode.

Love it Josh

16:30... AND That is how you take care of your employees ladies and gentle men

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Hey, I’ve been to Globe Az.

I've got nothing more to say on the matter pretty sweet series Tom was a bad man

The reason I say that Tom Horn was innocent of what he was actually eventually hung for. A teacher who knew the family very well said the family that they were feuding with his son had killed this man's son. She said I won't say anything unless they try to arrest Tom Horn for this because he never done it. The Nickels boy killed the boy not Tom Horn. The sad thing is everyone in town knew he did. Some men were saying Tom Horn unspeakable things he should be hung anyway well maybe so but the man that actually killed him or rather the boy that actually killed the 14 year old should have been the one hung for it. Supposedly there was a rock under his head which was Tom horns calling card. There's two possibilities there either he just by chance landed where there was a rock or the Nichols boy put a rock under his head to frame Tom Horn. Tom Horn must have been disliked because one time when he got out of jail he didn't know how the double action pistol works so he wasn't able to fire it and the deputy actually hit him so hard he broke his arm.

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Thank you for saying everyone else was as it's similar in the okay corral shootout they accuse the McClure's and Clanton's of rustling. They were ranchers and they had dealings with the wrestler element that kept their stock safe. Something that the Earth's never mentioned was every small rancher back in or even large rancher usually had friendly terms with the rustlers. It was a different time a different place. I'm talking about holding the wrestler stuck at the ranch allowing the wrestlers to spend the night feeding them and everything else. The thing The earp Brothers were pimps and done other things that made them anything but innocent. Us 99% of the contemporaries in tombstone Tucson galesville anywhere if they liked the Earps or the ranchers better and they would all say the ranchers. And since they were contemporaries I consider their opinion more important than anyone alive today. Everyone loves Johnny behan and until the early 20th century go into tombstone and say Johnny behan was a lousy sheriff and he would have a lot of enemies wanting to kick your rear. He walked around unarmed which was rather common for sheriffs in those days they had deputies who were armed. The ranchers who the contemporary said it best murdered in the streets of tombstone did nothing more than every other rancher in the area did. I just think I needed to make that flame because there's a lot of hero worship of Wyatt Earp. He was a bully until he ran into someone he could not bully I'm talking about Johnny Ringo. Ringo embarrassed him at least three times and contemporaries of the time said Wyatt Earp actually turned Ringo down in a stand-up gun fight. Doc Holliday took him up on it but when the mayor jerk the gun away from holiday and ringo they both went their separate ways. It was odd they were willing to gunfight each other because doc Holliday liked Ringo and Ringo liked doc Holliday. One more thing and then I'll stop when Ringo was killed Wyatt Earp was 900 mi away and doc Holliday was 750 mi away. What does that mean that means that neither one of them could have possibly killed a sleeping passed out Johnny Ringo. I wouldn't put it past either one of them they just could not have done if they were simply too far away. Doc Holliday was seen in a saloon the day before gambling in Glenwood springs Colorado. Wyatt Earp was trying to get into Denver because he had a murder one he had to stay outside of town and wait until the decision was reached and was seen by countless people. And those days there was no transportation on God's green earth that can get you $700 or $900 me away in one day so neither one of them could have possibly done it. Buckskin Frank Leslie killed a sleeping passed out Ringo. That's what he told the guard and that's what happened. Ringo had made buckskin back down earlier they had argument. Billy brackenridge came upon Ringo on a trail Ringo offered him a drink, he said the bottle was so hot he burned his lips.they tried to get Ringo to go home with him saying he was practically helpless ringo drunk refused. About a mile or later Breckenridge came upon buckskin who actually admitted he was looking for Ringo. He claimed it was to apologize but Breckenridge did not believe him as he knew that Ringo had embarrassed Frank earlier in the day. He told the guard after he murdered his live-in girlfriend that he saw Ringo drunk passed out and sleeping and he took the opportunity to shoot him and take some hair as a souvenir all of which matches the crime scene. And I could go on and on about the vendetta myth but this video is not about that let me just say that the vendetta did not happen. All the men that Pete Spence Mexican wife named lived until the 20th century and one person she did not name as being in on the conspiracy was Frank Stilwell whom Wyatt Earp i and his band of cutthroats murdered. Sorry for going off on something that has nothing to do with this video I am very passionate about the false hero worship that contemporaries never had of Wyatt Earp

Thought Tom had become a scout for the army tracking Geronimo and his tribe for awhile..

Do a video on Joe Medicine Crow, the badass WWII veteran. He counted coup, stole 50 horses, etc., and lived to 102.

I already know the answer to this but I can’t wait until you cover the alleged killing of the Nickell boy that got him hung. (I made a comment about this a while ago on a different post about how I’m related to the Nickell boy.) I can’t wait to hear it from your prospective and I’m eager to potentially learn any new information there might be!

Excuse me, yall heard anything about any Pinkertons in this area?

Why would anyone want to have their DNA in some database voluntarily? What a bunch of ignorance.

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@wildwestextravaganza do you think people in those times just used the number 100 to mean someone had a lot of kills or did they mean 100 in the literal since because i lean to think as often as they say that someone's killed 100 people they surely are just using that number to let someone know this persons killed a lot of people

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lol - can I say I live in the shire where Tewkesbury is a town. Worcestershire. I don’t see many hobbits but Tolkien was a local boy

Tewksbury does sound like a Hobbit name. There’s a true crime case in Tennessee involving for-real Proudfoot people.

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Penitentiary. Is spoken with 4 syllables, not 5. Come on, you're driving me nuts over here. 🤪🤪🤪

Why did we stop rolling our R's?

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Good role for Tommy Lee Jones to play.

I Money Mike (they call me) I never rode with Tom horn,had a few conversations with him,he seemed like one of those know it all,he always bragged about himself,saying he could bring in Geronimo single handed.i stayed away from him

Great episode....FYI, Pinkerton is now just a pathetic security company.....the McDonald's of security,.....overpriced and under satisfying.

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I love your videos, for the content you cover, and for personaliy, and presentation. Please, for your ow sake, ask someone how to pronounce words you dont know.

Thanks, now I want to eat a swan.

I would be careful about giving any personal information to these groups that's supposedly search your heritage the government is all over that and taking many notes. Just FYI

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nah g imagine all you do is have land some man want and you get people in 1997 throwing historical dirt your name. 24:12

You could have simply said the pinkertons if anybody's played Red Dead redemption 2 you know exactly what they're about... Hahahaha. You need to play Red Dead redemption 2 🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Ahhh. I like Wednesdays

@ around 24:40 bothwell got all of ellen's cattle as well which beggers the question, who really was the cattle rustler here..??................... one version has bothwell going quie insane before he died, screaming for for his soul in vain as the unholy fires crept closer to consume his filthy spirit forever, what do yuo think there josh..?... truth or poetic justice..??.........................

Money talks, BS walks. 😊

The McQueen movie was strangely sympathetic to a stone cold killer who got what he deserved in the end.

As Matt Dillon would say "There's right and wrong.. There ain't no gray."

With the exception of the Pleasant Valley war time, most of the pioneers couldn't shoot, during this time. During the eastern time in the east, they all were good shots. I use to wonder about it, but while watching 1883, the immigrants could not swim or shot. A shotgun was the best bet. As for I hate a thief, usually that gets said by a thief. Translation, as long as I stealing it is ok, but not you. Just a little old man advice. If you go in a business and see a lot of Crosses or Jesus is Lord, get out. More than likely, you are in the middle of thieves. People who follow the Lord, don't brag about it, they let their actions speak.

They can doll it all they want. At the end on the day T.H was waste product of most undesirable origins.

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first time I've been to this channel and it'll probably be the last I find it odd that a grown man would make fun of a family name like a little child.