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Charlie Siringo's West An Interpretive Biography
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lamar, Howard Roberts.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Private investigators.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Cowboys.
- Authors, American.
- Authors, American--Biography.
- Private investigators--United States--Biography.
- Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).
- Cowboys--Texas--Biography.
- West United States.
- United States.
- Texas.
- West (U.S.)--History--1890-1945.
- West (U.S.).
- West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890.
- Texas--Biography.
- Texas--History--1846-1950.
- Pinkerton's National Detective Agency.
- Pinkerton's National Detective Agency--Biography.
- Siringo, Charles A., 1855-1928.
- Genre:
- History
- Biographies
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 370 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- The colorful life of Charlie Siringo and the image of the American West he helped to create.
- Contents:
- Chaoter 11. Two Victories and a Defeat: Alaskan Gold Thieves, Kentucky Moonshiners, and the Haywood Trial in Idaho
- Figures 44-60
- Chapter 12. The Trials of an Author, 1912-1922: Siringo's "A Cowboy Detective" and "Two Evil Isms" Versus the Pinkertons, and A Retreat Down Memory Lane-"Billy the Kid" and "Lone Star Cowboy"
- Chapter 13. Recognition at Last! Charlie Siringo in Hollywood, 1923-1928
- Figures 61-68
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Chapter 5. The Great Adventure: Charlie Siringo and Billy the Kid on the Texas Panhandle Frontier, 1877-1882
- Figures 2-19
- Chapter 6. "Queen City of the Border": Caldwell, Kansas, 1871-1885
- Chapter 7. Rendezvous with Destiny: Charlie Siringo, the Haymarket Riot, and the Pinkertons, 1886-1890
- Chapter 8. Charlie Siringo Discovers New Mexico Politics: The Ancheta Case and After, 1891-1898
- Chapter 9. The Bloody Coeur d'Alene Strike, 1891-1893
- Chapter 10. Chasing Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and a Great Many Others, 1899-1903
- Figures 20-43
- Cover
- Half title
- Frontispiece
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Foreword by Richard W. Etulain
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Charlie Siringo and the Several Worlds of Matagorda Bay
- Chapter 2. Civil War Comes to Matagorda Bay, 1850-1867
- Chapter 3. Rites of Passage: St. Louis and the Mississippi River Experience, 1867-1870
- Chapter 4. Shanghai Pierce and El Rancho Grande: The Texas Cattle Industry from the Open Range to Corporate Enterprise, 1854-1900
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780826361660
- 0826361668
- OCLC:
- 1175922695
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