Home Schooling & Tom Horn

Summer vacations are winding down and families are returning home to begin preparing for the coming school year. Many people have written to tell me that they have seen several of the books I’ve penned about frontier women in the various bookstores they visited during their travels. Yellowstone, Santa Fe, Tombstone…it’s good to know the books are out there and being enjoyed. I received a letter a couple of weeks ago from a woman who uses several of the books in her classroom. “As a home schooling mother of five, I use a lot of living books to educate my children. Chris Enss’ books have been an enjoyable supplement to our history program at home. We love to read historical accounts which are engaging, fun, and true, and her books provide that for us.” Stacy Jordan – Nevada City, CA. You never know how God is going to use what we do. I’m grateful and thanks for writing Stacy. I usually have more to add to my daily journal entries. Indeed I do have more to add, but I’m up against a deadline for the Elizabeth Custer book and have to take care of that before I can effectively share what’s been going on with my life as a whole. I’d be remise if I didn’t mention what happened on this day more than a hundred years ago in the Old West. In 1903, Tom Horn escaped from custody in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He was quickly overtaken by townsmen after being grazed in the head by a shot fired by O.M. Eldrich. And badly beaten during recapture. Horn had such a fall from grace. Early in his career the legendary western scout, range detective, and Pinkerton detective was one of the most respected men alive. Everything changed for him when he went to work for cattle baron John Coble. Horn was hired to kill one of Coble’s adversaries and accidentally shot the man’s 14 year-old son. Horn’s last words before being hung for the murder was “hurry it up.”