Charlie Siringo's West: An Interpretive Biography

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Author: Howard R. Lamar

ISBN-10: 0826336698

ISBN-13: 9780826336699

Category: US & Canadian Literary Biography

Charlie Siringo (1855-1928) lived the quintessential life of adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, writer, and later as a consultant for early western films. Siringo was one of the most attractive, bold, and original characters to live and flourish in the final decades of the Wild West. Siringo's love of the cattle business and of cowboy life were so great that in 1885 he published a rollicking, picaresque account of his experiences in A Texas Cowboy, or Fifteen...

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The colorful life of Charlie Siringo and the image of the American West he helped to create. The Oklahoman This book is a must for Western aficionados; however, it's also excellent reading for labor historians. In addition, it's a plain good old read. Anyone interested in Americana should pluck it up.

\ Journal of the WestLamar offers a fresh perspective...\ \ \ \ \ The OklahomanThis book is a must for Western aficionados; however, it's also excellent reading for labor historians. In addition, it's a plain good old read. Anyone interested in Americana should pluck it up.\ \