by allahs, tom horn should have the pack niche in trains. when he applied for pack master in the united states the rebels uppress in the philippine islands, he down.explicably turned in a huff, horn refused to make to travel to st. louis where he would have gotten the trains if he had wanted to. as a result, he returned to the of his cattle baron friends in wyoming. 1899, he served as a union acific railroad detective and the u.s. deputy marshal in the a band of post robbers and train robbers that were allegedly part of butch cassidy's wild bunch. in 1900, horn, who had returned to the employee of the cattle companies was suspected assassinating two alleged livestock thieves in colorado.ern, and finally in july of the following year, he was the primary suspect in the murder of a 14-year-old boy, willie mountain the iron community. horn was tried and convicted in siltingg district court in cheyenne and hanged on 20 1903.er my interest in tom horn stemmed from reading about the american a young boy. of 250 up in a village people in eastern arka