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Siringo was already working as a cattle drive cowboy when he started working for the LX Ranch in 1877. This job entailed chasing after LX cattle stolen by Billy the Kid in 1880. Siringo stopped working for the LX Ranch when he married Mamie in 1884 and opened a tobacco store in Caldwell, Kansas. Their daughter Viola was born on 28 February 1885.
Jan 10, 2020 · WW: You mention the story of a blind phrenologist who came to Caldwell, rubbed Siringo’s head and told the audience, “Ladies and Gentlemen, here is a mule’s head.” Lamar: Siringo recorded the phrenologist account in his book before he moved to Chicago in 1886, but he used it to suggest that the prediction led to his being a Pinkerton detective—really coincidence only.
The Pinkertons provided services for management in labor disputes, including armed guards and secret operatives like Charles A. Siringo. A Texas native and former cowboy, Siringo moved to Chicago in 1886, where first-hand observation of the city’s labor conflict (which he attributed to foreign anarchism) moved him to join the Pinkertons.
Bored with being a merchant, Siringo moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1886, applying for a job with the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Using Pat Garrett’s name as a reference, he got the position and worked all over the West for the next 22 years as a successful cowboy detective. Traveling as far north as Alaska and as far south as Mexico City, he ...
Cowboy, Pinkerton detective, and western author, Charles Angelo Siringo was the first authentic cowboy autobiographer. His books helped popularize the romantic image of the American cowboy. Born on February 7, 1855, in Matagorda County, Texas, Siringo was introduced to the life of a cowboy at a young age. By the age of eleven he was working on ...
Mar 2, 2019 · Charles Angelo Siringo, cowboy, author, and detective, was born on February 7, 1855, in Matagorda County, Texas. His father, Italian immigrant Antonio Siringo, died a year later, leaving the boy's Irish mother, Bridgit (White) Siringo, to care for him and his older sister. After some schooling he made several trips on the Mississippi from New ...
Lamar focuses on Siringo’s youthful struggles to employ his abundant athleticism and ambitions and how Siringo’s varied experiences helped develop the compelling national myth of the cowboy. 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.
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