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 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 She also wrote an unpublished book on Horn defending him.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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