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Show Page 45 didn't work. He sometimes used his "system that never failed"-murder. There is some evidence that his actions were approved by Haley and the stock growers association, but in any case the result came out the same. Ann Bassett's intended husband did not live to see his wedding day. In the spring of 1900 a man arrived at Matt Rash's ranch. He called himself James Hicks and said he was searching for a small cattle ranch to buy. He was really Tom Horn and he had come to find proof that Rash was rustling cattle. Horn worked for the unsuspecting Rash for a few weeks before and during the spring roundup. Soon after the roundup started Ann joined in with the work. She took an immediate dislike to "Hicks," with whom she got into many heated arguments. "His bragging that he had been a great Indian fighter," wrote Ann, "his boastful, descriptive accounts of the human slaughter he had accomplished single-handed, were exceedingly obnoxious to me." Horn left the roundup soon after Ann arrived. Having spent nearly all day every day since his arrival, with Rash, he had apparently gathered all the proof of rustling he needed against him and against others in Brown's Park. One morning in early June, a few weeks after Horn's departure, Rash woke to find a note stuck to his front door. "Leave Brown's Park within 30 days," it ordered, "or suffer |