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When the Dial succumbed in 1929, its function had already been taken up by the Hound and Horn, founded by Lincoln Kirstein. Narrower in taste than the Dial, it printed avant-garde work of high standards. Its Henry James issue, near the end of its career in 1934, led the way to what had become ten years later almost a popular revival of the great novelist...
...granite stone in the Boulder, Colo, cemetery marks the grave. The inscription might be that of a deacon, grocer or Congressman: In loving memory of Tom Horn...
...Horn was buried blue in the face, his tongue extruded, after the law had given him one of the fanciest hangings ever seen in Wyoming. Jay Monaghan does an excellent job of retelling the story in Last of the Bad Men. The gallows was an indoor affair, with a trap worked by a waterpower gadget. Tom had already made one escape from his cell, and was known to have rich and imaginative friends who might try to engineer another getaway. So the sheriff, taking no chances, held the hanging one day in November 1903 in a corridor of the Laramie...
...group the big ranchers didn't like to have homesteaders messing up their range. They called them cattle rustlers, and sometimes they were. A wholesale attempt to scare them away by vigilante methods had developed into what the history books call the Johnson County War. Tom Horn had done his bit in this war; he was cocky, range-wise, quick on the draw, an ideal trigger man. But off-duty he drank too much, and talked too much. One day in Cheyenne he boasted to a U.S. marshal that he had clipped young Willie Nickell, a homesteader...
...Denver cattle barons a bad turn. They retained a batch of lawyers to defend him, appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court, and when all else failed, sent him off to the Boulder Cemetery in a high-priced white-satin-and-silver coffin. Author Monaghan knows the Tom Horn country at first hand, has talked to dozens of oldtimers who saw Tom in the flesh, has been collecting Tom Horn material for 20 or 30 years. A number of other writers, including Struthers Burt and Gene Fowler, have had their say about Tom. Last of the Bad Men ought...