Light and Variable: A Year of Celebrations, Holidays, Recipes, and Emily Dickinson - Softcover

Connie Cronley (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806137886 ISBN 13: 9780806137889

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006

Synopsis

On November 20, 1903, Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the murder of a fourteen-year-old nester boy. Horn-army scout and interpreter for Generals Willcox, Crook, and Miles in the Apache wars, Pinkerton operative, cattle detective, and "King of Cowboys"-was hanged like a common criminal, many think mistakenly.His own account of his life, written while he was in prison and first published in 1904, is not really a vindication, says Dean Krakel in his introduction. "While the appendix is spiked with interesting letters, testimonials, and transcripts, they don’t really add up to anything in the way of an explanation of what really happened."Regardless of Horn’s guilt or innocence, his story, beginning when he was a runaway Missouri farm boy, provides a firsthand look at scout Al Sieber in action, at the military both great and small, at the wily Geronimo, the renegade Natchez, and old Chief Nana of the Apaches.

About this title

About the Author

Award-winning journalist Connie Cronley is the author of two previous collections of essays, Sometimes a Wheel Falls Off and Light and Variable: A Year of Celebrations, Holidays, Recipes, and Emily Dickinson, and the collaborating author of Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace, a memoir by Edward J. Perkins.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806137886
• ISBN 13: 9780806137889
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272