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Early in the twentieth century near Yellowstone Park, an elderly prospectorregaled children with stories of his exploits. The old-timer was a crack shot,champion boxer, scout, trapper, miner — not a man to be crossed. To thechildren he was a beloved grandfather figure.Horn was a trapper, fur-trader, prospector, Army scout, and a riverboat bareknucklechampion, known as short-tempered man not to be crossed. He wasa crack shot and provided fresh meat for a wagon train on the CaliforniaTrail. He worked for a short time at Denver’s first iron foundry, prospectedin Colorado, mined silver in Nevada, and dug gold in California -- all beforeheading to the Montana gold fields at barely twenty-five years of age.