They say justice never rests—but neither does Tom Horn.
After the infamous gunslinger swung from the gallows inside the Laramie County Jail on November 20, 1903, the prisoners left behind began to hear things: the creak of the trapdoor, the sinister sound of running water from the “suicide gallows,” and a calm, steady voice saying, “Are you ready?”
Even after his death, prisoners swore Horn was still there with them, slowly pacing his cell and professing his innocence of murdering a 14-year-old boy. Each night, they could hear him being brought to the gallows as they listened from their own dark cells.
On Pioneers of Outlaw Country, we step inside those cold Cheyenne walls to uncover the haunting of Tom Horn—the outlaw who refused to die quietly.
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Thank you for stopping by! I am Jackie Dorothy, Wyoming historian and storyteller.
This show was made possible by John Charles Thompson, a young reporter at the 1903 Cheyenne Daily Reader. He was present when Tom Horn was hung inside the jail and then wrote about the haunting of the Laramie County jail after Horn’s death. Thompson has helped preserve Wyoming’s history!
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