Monday, July 15, 1901. Tom Horn goes visiting.

Today In Wyoming's History: July 15: ..

1901    Tom Horn, returned from Army service in the Spanish American War, and employed by John Coble, member of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, visited Jim and Dora Miller's ranch near Iron Mountain, as well as Glendolene Kimmel, the 22 year old teacher at the Iron Mountain School.

The Millers and Horn, including the Miller children, engaged in target shooting later that day, with Horn shooting his .30-30 Winchester.

Kimmel would go on to be a defense witness for Horn at his trial for the murder of Willie Nickell, one of her students.  That would end up in her being charged with perjury, although the charges were dismissed.  She moved to Missouri and thereafter lived with her family in Hannibal.  She moved with her mother to California in 1913, and lived there until her death in 1949 at age 68.  She never married.

The Kimmel story has been a feature of the Tom Horn legend from nearly the beginning, but in truth she had very little connection with Horn, having met him on a very limited basis.  On this occasion, he told stories, and given his role as a frontier scout and in the Spanish American War, he had stories to tell.  But Horn was nearly 40 years old on this occasion and Kimmel, a single woman in Wyoming, would have been sought after by nearly any single male in the region.

She would claim that one of the Miller boys claimed the murder, which is certainly possible even if he didn't.  She swore an affidavit to that effect.  She also wrote an unpublished book on Horn defending him.  While that might show a strong degree of interest in him, it didn't rise to the level of a romantic relationship as suggested in later day.

A better view would be that based on her limited interaction with him she took an interest in his fate, and felt honor bound after hearing a confession of the murder, whether it was true or not.

Indeed, the more surprising things is that she never married.

The Edison Manufacturing Company attained a monopoly over the production of American motion pictures after a federal court in New York ruled in its favor in a suit against the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company for patent infringement.

The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers went on strike.

Christy Mathewson pitched no-hitter for the Giants against St. Louis

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Saturday, July 13, 1901. A good effort.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Aircraft, Art, Automobiles, France, France (Paris), William McKinley