| Edition |
First paperback edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (391 p.) |
| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
The colorful life of Charlie Siringo and the image of the American West he helped to create. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Siringo, Charles A., 1855-1928.
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Pinkerton's National Detective Agency -- Biography.
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Siringo, Charles A., 1855-1928. |
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Siringo, Charles A., 1855-1928 |
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Pinkerton's National Detective Agency |
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Cowboys -- Texas -- Biography.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
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Private investigators -- United States -- Biography.
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Authors, American -- Biography.
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Texas -- History -- 1846-1950.
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Texas -- Biography.
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West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890.
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West (U.S.) -- History -- 1890-1945.
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Authors, American |
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Cowboys |
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Frontier and pioneer life |
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Private investigators |
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Texas |
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United States |
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West United States |
| Chronological Term |
1846-1950 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Added Author |
Etulain, Richard W.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lamar, Howard R. Charlie Siringo's West : An Interpretive Biography Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press,c2020 |
| ISBN |
9780826361660 electronic book |
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0826361668 electronic book |
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0826336701 |
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9780826336705 |
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