Tom Horn: The Most Polarizing Anti-Hero of the Wild West

[@Biographics]

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[@archstanton6102]

You should have put Sam's amazing Magic Spoon ad from BB.

[@hashtag415]

Let's try some truth in advertising and go with Magic Coke Spoon next.

[@hiddengemgamers9376]

Do a biographics on Simo Häyhä. He was and still is the greatest sniper of all time.

[@PeterCombs]

Simon...is a CERIAL KILLER...Allegedly. This IS PETER and I know...

[@YeeSoest]

They should finally give you the Promo Code "0G" for your BB ad reads for Magic Spoon... You know, since they're actually writing "0G sugar" on their product and we - obviously - are your OGs...would be neat ;)

[@ceirwynsinclair4198]

Could we get a video on the Pinkerton Agency? Being a detective agency that also supplies hired guns sounds like an interesting set up!

[@bigsawdust4726]

Yeah they were/are a pretty fucked up organization over the years

[@Johnnie_Stallings]

I believe he already did one on the Pinkertons

[@ajsnyder5770]

Yeah I'm down with this idea 💡😏

[@michaeltobias3110]

I would watch that. 👍👍👍

[@nicolew6904]

I've heard a podcast about them.... But need it here too!

[@anarchyantz1564]

Can you do one on Joe Medicine Crow. He was a Native American writer, historian and war chief of the Crow Nation and the last Plains Indian war chief, which he managed to achieve while serving in WWII completing all four tasks required to become a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him (counting coup), taking an enemy's weapon, leading a successful war party, and stealing an enemy's horse and this is only part of this True Native American Badass.

[@archstanton6102]

We.need more.on Native Americans.

[@janelancley7323]

That sounds like something I'd enjoy.

[@anarchyantz1564]

@@archstanton6102 And less of their oppressors, like the Presidents.

[@jakemac1396]

@@anarchyantz1564 shut up. They lost a war. Get over it.

[@millions111]

Love to see this

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:55 - Chapter 1 - Early years 5:10 - Chapter 2 - Scout & Interpreter 7:55 - Chapter 3 - Pinkerton agent 12:30 - Chapter 4 - Stock detective 16:50 - Chapter 5 - Convicted criminal

[@jorgewashington1469]

Simon is basically my Wikipedia at this point with so many channels my dude you are the internet

[@dionthorn]

I like how generally concise he is and how he'll admit when different fields basically don't know and they are just guessing.

[@dylanjohnston4161]

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[@KingofAwesomness14]

@@Sukkamaisteri agreed

[@theawesomeman9821]

Miss him on VisualPolitik

[@gurujohn64]

His cell mate gave my Grandparents his Saxophone. My great aunt woke up one night when she was 5 and heard a noise outside. They were rustling horses out of my Great Grandparents place. She went out and told them to stop as she didn't want to walk 5 miles to school. They laughed and told her ok. She said she knew who they were but wouldn't tell anyone if they left her horse. They agreed and left all the horses. My dad's father was part of his group and would tell my dad stories when he was little about Tom.

[@barrydysert2974]

Thank you for sharing!:-) 🖖

[@lestatangel]

It was my birthday two weeks ago. I like Swiss cheese. I prefer fresh ground coffee but sometimes I drink instant. I'm out of white candles. I have a Rottweiler named muffin, and a cat named poodle boots. Muffin doesn't answer to his name . It was cold today so I got up late, I usually get up early. My toes are cold right now. Despite the hype Pop-Tarts suck. The Ouija board was invented in 1891. My favorite color is purple. I identify as a straight cis white male goth lightweight combat chassis/ weapons platform. My pronouns are God Emperor and Mi Lord. Every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes. I couldn't find my lighter for an hour today. Some people wake up on the wrong side of human potential every single morning of their lives. The Darkest Nights you can see the Stars the Most.

[@lauriejones4507]

@johnbrooks thank you. These stories that are passed down from family histories are really fascinating.

[@burninkgb2537]

@@lestatangel wtf

[@lestatangel]

@@burninkgb2537 ..... I'm just passing down family history ....

[@whitekong1033]

Simon: "I've done shows about serial killers, but never cereal killers..."

[@jessiesratrods1210]

".....but you certainly can be a cereal killer Ledgend with Magic Spoon!!!!!"

[@Superbatmanbro]

at the moment he said Pinkertons I thought of red dead redemption 2

[@IsntTheInternetGreat]

@@Superbatmanbro Currently playing the game, which is why I am now watching this

[@catdaddy3302]

“0 grams of sugar is a good thing.”

[@seangannon6081]

“ Shredrick “ has to be one of the most badass names for a dog ever/. It’s simple and right to the point,

[@deanfirnatine7814]

I hope he ended the guy that shot his dog

[@sledjro_1]

I am the great grandson of Tom. My mother is Pamela Horn. Close to the great Ross Perot. Anyway I have a family book of every horn that dates back to the early 1800s. The craziest thing about my story is that Shedrick was my nick name Growing up my entire life. It was a baseball nickname that my coach gave me. It stood for ‘bringing the tools to the Shed’ a baseball term used often. My real name is Cedric. My nick name is Shedrick.. Pretty crazy

[@lisaahmari7199]

Feel like Shredrick would be a badass name for a cat, actually!

[@AlexKS1992]

That’s quite the German name considering Tom was of German descent.

[@goji059]

"Dog" best name

[@hankthepatriot3733]

I live in Cheyenne WY, Willie Nickell's grave is here, and the jail Horn was kept in still stands.

[@christineparis5607]

That is so cool!! Wild Bill Hickock was apparently there with Calamity Jane at one time. Even more surrealistictly, the fashion Icon and future Editor in Chief of Vogue Magazine in the 1960s was in Cheyenne, Wyoming as a young girl during some outbreak of disease that had her mother sending her, her sister, and her French maid to the wilds to avoid illness....they learned to ride horses and talk to cowboys.... She LOVED being out there, and in the future, would send models and photographers to wild towns all over America, creating some of the most iconic photographs of all time....

[@hankthepatriot3733]

@@christineparis5607 that is cool! Didn't know that about Vogue! Yes Wild Bill was here, he passed through many times (I was born here, so the history of the city is pretty interesting) along with the fact downtown is still VERY similar to how it was in the 1800's (obvious modernization has occurred) but many of the buildings are from that time period. The gallows from which Tom Horn was hung from didn't fully be dismantled until I was young (70's) but the court house it was next to (across the street from the original jail) still stands today. Thank you so much for sharing with me! I greatly appreciate it!

[@christineparis5607]

@@hankthepatriot3733 One of my dream ideas is to travel America for a few years and look at our history, not just the big stuff, but the minor characters and events as well. I could go to museums for the rest of my life, I never get tired of history, and have collected thousands of memoirs from the 1800s on. I was completely fascinated as a kid, and now, as an adult, that what I spent every extra dollar on, old books, I hope to be able to finish a book I'm writing based on my grandmother, who grew up in West Texas and ended up in Hollywood! Hard to believe, I know! There are so many places to go to, I know I'll be in my 80s going, "I'm just getting started!"....😀

[@michaeltobias3110]

That's pretty cool 👍👍👍

[@mitchellneu]

Ideas/requests for Wild West Biographics videos: Hugh Glass: The Revenant Doc Holliday: “I’m Your Huckleberry.” Jesse James: Last Rebel Of The Civil War Sam Bass Pinkerton Detective Agency John J. Pershing(bc he hunted Pancho Villa before WWI) John Chisum Tecumseh Geronimo Crazy Horse

[@JudeNance]

I lived in Wyoming all my life. I knew a cattle inspector that said Tom Horn was at his grandfather's ranch at the time he was supposed to have killed the young boy. The cattle association which were a bunch of rich guys that owned most of Wyoming. Horn had completed his usefulness and they wanted to be rid of him.

[@christopherneelyakagoattmo6078]

Yeah, that's the legend. He literally knew where the bodies were buried. Not saying he didn't kill men and boys in cold blood. I'm just saying that there were many powerful people that didn't like him talking about who got killed.

[@blueberrypirate3601]

Played by Steve McQueen in one of his final roles in 1980.

[@jwilson811]

Steve McQueen portrayed him in the 1980 movie Tom Horn, made him look like a nice guy when he was far from it.

[@samsoncrosswood7259]

Nice guy? These were different times. Nice guys, like today, finished last. You had to be a bit brutal to survive back then. Billy the Kid was not a nice guy. Nor was Wyatt Earp or Bass Reeves. We need to stop judging people of the past by our own standards in order to make ourselves *feel* good. Also, the mock trial in the 1990s, using our enlightened standards, acquitted him.

[@zarasbazaar]

@@samsoncrosswood7259 Most people bakc then were nice guys who didn't kill. If the standards back then were so different why was he frequently fired or hanged? Stop aggrandizing criminals.

[@charlesmccoy5857]

@@zarasbazaar He was frequently fired, but only hanged once LOL

[@deanfirnatine7814]

@@zarasbazaar People back then used to beat other men near to death for an insult, people shot each other over grazing land, shooting a man's dog or horse would get you dead as a door nail and no one would say anything. Tom Horn was a hired killer, there is a difference, that is why he was fired and ended up hanged.

[@briancrawford8751]

@@deanfirnatine7814 That sounds like West Virginia right now.

[@chrisdavid735]

As a life long Wyoming resident, I think this is the best episode yet.

[@russell4718]

Simon I don't start my day with magic spoon but I do start it with you and coffee please keep us the great work

[@SpookyWatcher]

Ah, I see that all wild west boys were already born with a 'stashe

[@khameronsmith108]

Simon is a whole series of immaculate vibes

[@CrazyBear65]

_"I never ate a bug that big before..."_ ~ Steve McQueen, as Tom Horn.

[@ethanramos4441]

“You’re the sickest looking lot of sheriffs I ever seen” Tom Horn

[@Manlikebenj]

A biographics video to end the week is like adding fresh milk to my favourite cereal

[@biblebelievingchristian7482]

I didn't pay attention in world history class in highschool. Only now do I want to know it and Simon has provided an Avenue for me to learn about Plato, Aristotle, julius Caesar, and so many more. Thankyou Simon.

[@nozecone]

Finally - someone admits that they didn't pay attention in history class! Everyone else just says, "Why weren't we taught this in school??"

[@WARPATH_45]

I just watched a movie about Tom Horn yesterday and today you happen to fill the gaps I was wondering about today. Thanks Simon

[@michaeltobias3110]

What are the odds on that??

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

An interesting take on the man was given in 1979 TV miniseries "Mr. Horn," starring David Carradine, Richard Widmark and Karen Black. There are many fictional aspects but there is a key phrase: asked whether it's true he has killed a hundred men, he says, "a thousand. The more they think I have done, the less I have to do. Fear serves me. The fear they have of me." Maybe his bragging wasn't a psychological flaw, but a weapon that ultimately killed himself.

[@elishahmiles6740]

I live near browns park where dart and rash were killed, my neighbor found isom darts branding iron in a tree while out riding. I have also worked on the 2 bar ranchs equipment, ironically they are one of the largest sheep ranchs in the state after waging a war against them a hundred years ago.

[@robertayoder2063]

Come on his iron just hanging in a tree tell now

[@RegrettablyLongwinded]

>Wild West >photo of English saddle in thumbnail instead of Western saddle DAMMIT, WHISTLER & CO!!!

[@Meganigan]

My first thought too. Thank goodness the content is so good we'll forgive Mr. Whistler a variety of such sins.

[@mrtoad8585]

I personally believe Tom Horn got railroaded on his trial it says a lot about the man’s character when nobody in the county wanted to pull the lever when he got hanged

[@teresagriffith1240]

He deffently got railroaded he was my grate grate grate uncle storys told threw history in my family about him and from what you dont hear of tom horn brother was my uncle charlie all we got from then is chairs passed down in history from then.,the stories told down family history i go beliving books only go by what someone else thinks not always fact.,i belive my family on how he was insted.

[@jessiesratrods1210]

At this point I'm convinced Magic spoon offers no actual financial incentive for the videos.....they're just Simon's Peanut butter Cereal Plug that he re-ups with in exchange for the sponsorship.

[@scorpio9960]

Great video! I learn more history from Simon than public schools ever hoped to offer me. Thank you Simon and team.

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$10 for a box of cereal = I'll pass. For $10 it better taste like ambrosia or Miss America's pvssy.

[@Meditative_Mystic]

Before or after the cream pie?

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

@@Meditative_Mystic definitely before.

[@davidanderson5960]

Lewis Wetzel is a fascinating figure from the early frontier days of America. Often compared to Daniel Boone. And he knew Betty Zane and her brothers. He would make a wonderful character for a Biographical episode! Thanks so much.

[@jeffcolorado]

Several years ago my wife and I were wandering through Columbia cemetery in Boulder Colorado, which is a historically old place, with lots of interesting tombstones, and came across Tom Horn's grave. It surprised me, as I knew Horn died in Wyoming, but didn't know he was buried in Boulder.

[@AlexKS1992]

I thought Tom was buried in Wyoming as well.

[@thomasmeenan8111]

Would love to see one on the great Sitting Bull!

[@RobinPortnoff]

Would love to hear more about legends, heroes and villains from the far east. Keep it up, Simon & CO!

[@johnnyjohnson1326]

Tom Horn is one of my favorite people from the Old West. Braggart or not, he was a hero. He got railroaded in his trial.

[@jaymetcalfe8540]

Simon I love your videos! I wish that you would make a video on Orin Porter Rockwell.

[@the_kingslayer]

I love how every video lately is brought to you by "magic spoon"...keep chasing the dragon simon

[@TheRedGiant-g2s]

Hey could you please do a biographics on bert trautman. He played in the FA cup final with a broken neck. But before that he was a member of the hitler youth, Luftwaffe, paratrooper and a prisoner of war during WW2.

[@TheTotallyRealXiJinping]

‘A casino in Reno’ flowed off the tongue so sexily

[@huntercollum869]

Should cover killer miller

[@mycornflakes788]

Sams edit for magic spoon on bb was f*ckin awsome xD

[@alexanderveritas]

I’m the _FNV_ rating system his alignment would’ve most probably been that of _Unpredictable._

[@stephenkwasek1933]

Very nice. I sure like learning something new

[@joseybryant7577]

Man, this guy really toots his own Horn...

[@Mrgunsngear]

Thanks

[@LifeTries_STEVE]

The fact that people are paying 40 dollars for 4 boxes of ceareal blows my mind

[@neocomixx5128]

I wonder if their metrics show a spike in peanut butter cereal sales since sponsoring Simon's channels

[@MrZip420]

you should make a video on Geronimo! :D

[@colincomposer]

"The Kindness of Strange Farmers" - great title for a movie.

[@nozecone]

I liked the idea of the farmers washing his clothes for him ... !

[@TheWyldesidewithEricClark]

They shot Shred?...So, we have a Wild West Wick?

[@seand.g423]

"A goddamn fountain pen..."

[@tylerchrist3249]

@Simon, you should do an episode on Chandragupta and the Mauryan empire... also maybe an episode on an ancient Korean leader!

[@charlessedlacek5754]

Tom horn got railroaded.

[@thejimtrain]

“Magic Spoon tastes Grrrrrrreat!”...... potential copyright infringement 🤣

[@evalevy2909]

I'd love to see a video on stagecoach Annie

[@Sinn0100]

I don't need all of that sugar?! Says you, I love my sugar, caffeine, tobacco (cigars), meat, and potatoes.

[@Welkdad]

Recognized the name from the book Apache Wars I read a couple years ago. Horn is a character.

[@kristaberck6821]

Commenting before watching. Tom horn is left out of a lot oh history and should be remembered better. Love the channel simon.

[@kneegrow4656]

*IS CEREAL A SOUP OR A SALAD?* I need answers!

[@Ashley-jp4nn]

Cereal is a vegetable product, so I’m going with a very wet salad.

[@MasterMalrubius]

Cereals are grains. It is neither soup or salad. Who eats it determines how they prepare it.

[@daninehorn2038]

There’s a huge debate in my family on whether or not we’re related to Tom Horn or if we’re descended from native Americans like my grandfather swore. Either way we haven’t been able to confirm or deny either 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@sleepydoghistory9994]

You should do one on the Chang Huesh-Lang “the last warlord”

[@CatnamedMittens]

Dogmeat Warlord is cooler.

[@kaz5150619]

Do a video on Carole Landis her life story is both heartbreaking and fascinating

[@somethinglikethat2176]

The boy with the blaze is taking over. Edit: re: the cereal ad.

[@sledjro_1]

I am the great grandson of Tom. My mother is Pamela Horn. Close to the great Ross Perot. Anyway I have a family book of every horn that dates back to the early 1800s. The craziest thing about my story is that Shedrick was my nick name Growing up my entire life. It was a baseball nickname that my coach gave me. It stood for ‘bringing the tools to the Shed’ a baseball term used often. My real name is Cedric. My nick name is Shedrick.. Pretty crazy

[@doreenshumpert77]

Cedric, I am a researcher and would love to email you for family stories. The problem with a lot of "history" is no family stories or stories from boots on the ground. Now, Tom wasn't married that we know of, unless to an Apache common law wife and/or he didn't hang? So I'm very curious about your history. It's far past time for truthful and/or filled in history!

[@justcallmeSmith]

Yesss!!!! My dude, thanks for this, imma just pretend my request was seen and granted. Awesome.

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@jamesmartin6050]

Here are some suggestions for another video - all interesting people though the first two are lesser known. April Ellison/William Ellison Jr. (1790-1861) - a freed slave from South Carolina who became a successful slaveowner and planter himself before the civil war. Anthony Johnson (1600-1670) - a former indentured servant who became one of the first African American property owners in America and a successful tobacco farmer. Lord Mountbatten (1900-1979) - Prince Philip’s uncle and Queen Elizabeth’s second cousin once removed who was assassinated by the IRA Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) - Japanese poet, author, playwright, actor and nationalist who committed seppuku after a failed attempt to overthrow Japan’s 1947 constitution. Robert Walpole (1676-1745) - British politician who was the first prime minister of Great Britain from 1721 until 1742 under King George I and King George II. Eamon DeValera (1882-1975) - prominent political leader in 20th century Ireland who, after the Irish war of independence from 1919 to 1921, was in the public eye for over forty years from 1922 until his death were he served as head of government (Taoiseach/prime minister) and head of state (president). He was nearly executed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and was key in putting into place the new constitution on 1937. A very prominent Irish figure. George Eastman (1854-1932) - American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak company. He was a pioneer of photography and a major philanthropist. He commit suicide at the age of 77 because of chronic pain from health problems. Emile Zola (1840-1902) - French novelist and journalist who is an early practitioner in the literary genre, naturalism. He was involved in the Dreyfus affair, a political scandal in France. He died in 1902 at the age of 62 from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. ryoichi sasakawa (1899-1995) - Japanese businessman, politician, sports administrator, philanthropist and was criminal who helped Norman Borlaug with his Green Revolution.

[@terryarmbruster7986]

Hmmm banana flake made me think why not a banana choco coconut peanut butter blend? Lol be awesome

[@tmrezzek5728]

Steve McQueen was way cooler than Tom Horn.

[@kiranpandith]

We need Cassius Marcellus Clay biography. The legendary abolitionist from Kentucky!

[@Kadeo-ms6qw]

Any plans for a Doc Holiday episode?

[@craigfurlong7981]

grain free cereal? Cereal by definition means grain....lol. Next sponser... h2o free water.... love all your channels...keep up the good work.

[@knuckles1397]

11 minutes! Quickest I ever got here!

[@silvernight7667]

Weird thing growing up my family said I was related to Tom horn then in basic training someone was talking about him and now finally decided to look up facts myself lol

[@desolusholakelly]

Could u please do a video on Quanah Parker great warrior of the Comanche Tribes and his mother Cynthia Parker just finished a book on him called Empire of the Summer Moon brilliant read

[@jamesbain8167]

Am enjoying my Magic Spoon cereal!

[@Idahoguy10157]

Tom Horn was a mercenary for the cattle barons in Wyoming. A paid vigilante. Until the cattle barons realized he was a liability.

[@calebchristensen900]

Tom Horn's one the the guys from history that I'm surprised there's not a movie or character based on him.

[@Bartonfink3434]

See the 1980 movie starring Steve Mc Queen as Tom Horn.

[@Superbatmanbro]

This Right around the Time when the Blackwater incident happened

[@johnnyjohnson1326]

And a mini series around 78-79

[@ahuyx]

would you ever consider doing a biographics on eva braun?

[@lestatangel]

Calamity Jane was an interesting character. I'll have to look maybe you did her already. If not please give it a Goooo Simon

[@GregCooperJr.]

It was the Dutch van Der Linde at 15:08.

[@curtismes]

Seiber was a Union Army soldier wounded at Gettysburgh...he became a Scout later...Chief of Scouts means he was Chief of the Apache Scouting troops...the US Army used White Mtn Apache to chase down Geronimo...

[@catfishgray3696]

GREAT JOB SIMON, GREAT VIDEO, [ BACK TO WORK ]...

[@chaoslab]

You're a magic spoon Simon! :D

[@danielscuiry2847]

I thought the most polarizing antihero of the Old West was Billy The Kid 🤔

[@sherrile]

I seem to remember the reason that the Julian gallows was invented was that a lot of folks in Cheyenne at the time thought he was innocent and they couldn't find anybody willing to take responsibility for springing the trapdoor.

[@CrazyBear65]

Geronimo's real name was Goyahkla, "He who yawns." You should do a bio of him.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Like that has not been done a thousand times, how about lesser know Native American like Cochise

[@timothyzenner7788]

Thank you for not doing square space like almost every time. Cereal....I watched the entire advert...

[@arsenalapp3017]

I honestly see Simon more then my family at the minute great catalogue of work ,anyways how's about a video on Geronimo?

[@larriehanus7472]

Could you do a video about the VOC ?

[@mairtinmangan]

I just watched an old video of Simon without a beard.... My eyes feel violated.

[@glennmcharry1662]

Captain Hector Waller and the "Scrap Iron Flotilla"

[@clayhamilton9487]

Please do Walter H Thompson! Winston Churchill’s bodyguard

[@curtismes]

He was well liked by Seiber...but Lt Cruse and Lt Davis both said he took way too much credit for stuff he did not do during the Apache wars and the Geronimo campaign...both Lts wrote autobiographies of which Lt Britton Davis is considered the Gold standard on Geronimo...

[@natewolshuck9363]

I thought it was un-British to like Peanut Butter? Lol!

[@bluestrife28]

Thanks Simon, now Ima go buy Sugar Smacks for the first time in 20 years 😂

[@matthewwilliams6611]

Next time do a video on Ben Gourion, Golda Meir, or Moshe Dayan.

[@shawnsee2688]

I'm watching this video 2 miles from Geronimo's grave at Fort Sill Oklahoma

[@jordanntare3208]

I came here just for the ad and ended up getting a great video :)

[@justincase9463]

Tom Horn’s death was the social marker for the end of the old West, from that time forward the country, men, and the idea of what is western changed, he surely carried that former hardness with him to the grave.

[@kitothompson7930]

Please do Neil Peart. An important man to so many people's lives.

[@kl0wnkiller912]

Being a cereal lover recently diagnosed type 2 diabetic I might actually order some... How about doing a biography on Kurt Tank?