Carol Lee Bowers Papers, 1891-2000

The collection contains photocopies of letters; newspaper articles; and other documents about Tom Horn and about Glendolene Kimmell compiled by Carol Bowers in the course of her research. Glendolene Kimmell was a school teacher at the Iron Mountain School, Wyoming, in 1901, at the time when Tom Horn was alleged to have shot fourteen-year-old Willie Nickell on a nearby ranch. Kimmell gave a deposition expressing her belief that Horn was not guilty of the murder. Horn, however, was convicted and executed for the crime in 1903. The trial received much press coverage, and there was gossip and speculation regarding Kimmell's relationship with Tom Horn. In the 1990s Bowers, a historian, attempted to trace Kimmell’s life. Bowers learned that Glendolene Myrtle Kimmell lived in Hannibal, Missouri, before coming to Wyoming. After the Horn trial, Glendolene Kimmell and her mother settled in Atascadero, California, where Kimmell died in 1949.

Also included in the collection are sixteen photographs taken by Bowers of the aftermath of a flood in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1985.