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Tom Horn : Last of the Bad Men by Jay Monaghan (1997, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press

ISBN-100803282346

ISBN-139780803282346

eBay Product ID (ePID)1100511

Product Key Features

Book TitleTom Horn : Last of the Bad Men

Number of Pages290 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1997

TopicGeneral

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorJay Monaghan

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight0 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-001508

Reviews"Confronting a character whose episodes were savagely dramatic, Mr. Monaghan avoided romantic gilding."- New York Times Book Review, "Jay Monaghan does an excellent job of retelling [Horn's story. . . . [He knew the Tom Horn country at first hand, talked to dozens of oldtimers who saw Tom in the flesh, [collected Tom Horn material for twenty or thirty years. . . . Tom Horn ought to be the last word."- Time, "Jay Monaghan does an excellent job of retelling [Horn's] story. . . . [He knew] the Tom Horn country at first hand, talked to dozens of oldtimers who saw Tom in the flesh, [collected] Tom Horn material for twenty or thirty years. . . . Tom Horn ought to be the last word."-Time, "Confronting a character whose episodes were savagely dramatic, Mr. Monaghan avoided romantic gilding."-New York Times Book Review, "Confronting a character whose episodes were savagely dramatic, Mr. Monaghan avoided romantic gilding."- New York Times Book Review ., "Confronting a character whose episodes were savagely dramatic, Mr. Monaghan avoided romantic gilding."-New York Times Book Review., "Jay Monaghan does an excellent job of retelling [Horn's] story. . . . [He knew] the Tom Horn country at first hand, talked to dozens of oldtimers who saw Tom in the flesh, [collected] Tom Horn material for twenty or thirty years. . . . Tom Horn ought to be the last word."-Time., "Jay Monaghan does an excellent job of retelling [Horn's] story. . . . [He knew] the Tom Horn country at first hand, talked to dozens of oldtimers who saw Tom in the flesh, [collected] Tom Horn material for twenty or thirty years. . . . Tom Horn ought to be the last word."- Time .

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal973.8/4/092

Synopsis"The last great folk tale of the last American frontier"--that's how Jay Monaghan describes the crimson career of Tom Horn, defender of property rights, soldier of fortune, range detective, professional killer. Tom Horn, who had chased after Geronimo and ridden the trains as a Pinkerton operative, was drawn to wherever the action was--ultimately to Wyoming as a hired gun for the cattle barons. Finally he went too far--and paid at the end of a rope in 1903. For years afterward, whenever a man was found murdered on the high plains, people said, "Somebody tom-horned that fellow.", New York City in the Jazz Age was host to a pulsating artistic and social revolution. Uptown, an unprecedented explosion in black music, literature, dance, and art sparked the Harlem Renaissance. While the history of this African-American awakening has been widely explored, one chapter remains untold: the story of a group of women collectively dubbed "Miss Anne."Sexualized and sensationalized in the mainstream press--portrayed as monstrous or insane--Miss Anne was sometimes derided within her chosen community of Harlem as well. While it was socially acceptable for white men to head uptown for "exotic" dancers and "hot" jazz, white women who were enthralled by life on West 125th Street took chances. Miss Anne in Harlem introduces these women--many from New York's wealthiest social echelons--who became patrons of, and romantic participants in, the Harlem Renaissance. They include Barnard College founder Annie Nathan Meyer, Texas heiress Josephine Cogdell Schuyler, British activist Nancy Cunard, philanthropist Charlotte Osgood Mason, educator Lillian E. Wood, and novelist Fannie Hurst--all women of accomplishment and renown in their day. Yet their contributions as hostesses, editors, activists, patrons, writers, friends, and lovers often went unacknowledged and have been lost to history until now.In a vibrant blend of social history and biography, award-winning writer Carla Kaplan offers a joint portrait of six iconoclastic women who risked ostracism to follow their inclinations--and raised hot-button issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality in the bargain. Returning Miss Anne to her rightful place in the interracial history of the Harlem Renaissance, Kaplan's formidable work remaps the landscape of the 1920s, alters our perception of this historical moment, and brings Miss Anne to vivid life.

LC Classification NumberE83.88.H67H34 1997