A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-two Years with a World-Famous Detective Agency
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (540 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803291892 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 556 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorFrank Morn is a professor of criminal justice at Illinois State University and author of The Eye That Never Sleeps: A History of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency (1982).
Amazon Customer said Five Stars. Great book by an Americanlegend.. "Siringo's Best" according to Mesquite Pete. Charles Siringo was the real deal, the rare 1870's cowboy who experienced the trail rides of the Wild West, but also felt the need and had the desire to put his experiences in writing. The stories in his books seem to be honest and legit, not inflated or self-indulgent. He was a man of great courage and resoursefulness, and the stories in this book are full of real-life examples. I have read several of Siringo's writings, and have found this book to be the most enjoyable and fascinating of them all.. M. Jackson said charlie siringo-one of the west's best kept secret heroes. This is a great book if you're into the American West, The Wild Bunch, or just a detective fan.Charlie Siringo must have been one of the toughest men who ever lived15 years in the saddle as a cowboy, followed by "charlie siringo-one of the west's best kept secret heroes" according to M. Jackson. This is a great book if you're into the American West, The Wild Bunch, or just a detective fan.Charlie Siringo must have been one of the toughest men who ever lived15 years in the saddle as a cowboy, followed by 22 years as a Pinkerton detective!Charlie writes as a detective wouldmostly, it's just the facts. He writes in an easy to read style that seems to flow from him in a natural manner. His stories are amazing, and he was surely a 'walking national treasure'in terms of his first hand knowledge of the American West 1865-1900.I can't believe he is so '. "charlie siringo-one of the west's best kept secret heroes" according to M. Jackson. This is a great book if you're into the American West, The Wild Bunch, or just a detective fan.Charlie Siringo must have been one of the toughest men who ever lived15 years in the saddle as a cowboy, followed by 22 years as a Pinkerton detective!Charlie writes as a detective wouldmostly, it's just the facts. He writes in an easy to read style that seems to flow from him in a natural manner. His stories are amazing, and he was surely a 'walking national treasure'in terms of his first hand knowledge of the American West 1865-1900.I can't believe he is so '. years as a Pinkerton detective!Charlie writes as a detective wouldmostly, it's just the facts. He writes in an easy to read style that seems to flow from him in a natural manner. His stories are amazing, and he was surely a 'walking national treasure'in terms of his first hand knowledge of the American West 1865-1900.I can't believe he is so '
He survived the labor riots at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in 1892 (his testimony helped convict eighteen union leaders), hounded moonshiners in the Appalachians, and chased Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch. Frank Dobie wrote, "His cowboys and gunmen were not of Hollywood and folklore. Siringo had settled down to store-keeping in Caldwell, Kansas, when a blind phrenologist, traveling through, took the measure of his "mule head" and told him that he was "cut out" for detective work. A Cowboy Detective chronicles his twenty-two years as an undercover operative in wilder parts of the West, where he rode with the lawless, using more stratagems and guises than Sherlock Holmes to bring them to justice and escaping violent death more often than Dick Tracy. Frank Morn, in his introduction to this Bison Books edition, discusses the changes that resulted from two years of litigation. The deeper truth of Siringo's book remains. As J. Finally published in 1912 without Pinkerton in the title or the text, A Cowboy Detective has Siringo working for the "Dickensen Detective Agency" and meeting up with the likes of "Tim Corn," whom every western buff will recognize. Once described as "a small wiry man, cold and steady as a rock" and "born without fear," Ch
Frank Morn is a professor of criminal justice at Illinois State University and author of The Eye That Never Sleeps: A History of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency (1982).