"A Texas Cowboy" was one of the first true looks into life as a cowboy. Its author, Charles A. Siringo, was born in Dodge City, Kansas and at the age of 15 started working on local ranches as a cowboy and participated over the course of his ranching career in many cattle drives. A highly influential work that romanticized the life of a cowboy and the Old West, Siringo's book tells an autobiographical account of riding the famous Chisholm Trail and...

The author served with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency for twenty-two years, and he publishes revelations from the inside. These stories of the methods of the Pinkertons were so objectionable to the private detectives that Mr. Siringo has been subjected to persistent persecution. Efforts have been made to exclude his book from the mails; and he himself has been arrested on warrants charging him with libel. In his book, Mr. Siringo deals...

How did Texas cowboy Charlie Siringo survive decades living among the worst outlaws of the Old West cattle country, such as Billy the Kid, Bill Moore, John Wesley Hardin, Ben Thompson, Clay Allison, Sam Bass, and Tom Horn? In 1927, Charles A. Siringo published an in-depth narrative of his life among the outlaws and lawmen of the Old West cattle country, as well as first-hand accounts provided by other noteworthy figures of the times. It is this book...

"An epic account of the Old West and a vivid portrait of the outsized life of cowboy, detective, and chronicler Charlie Siringo. No figure in the Old West lived or influenced its legacy more fully than Charlie Siringo. Born in Matagorda, Texas, in 1855, Charlie went on his first cattle drive at age 11 and spent two decades living his boyhood dream as a cowboy. As the dangerous, lucrative "beeves" business boomed, Siringo drove longhorn steers north...

Using primary source materials from three individuals around whom the narrative revolves, best-selling author Blum tells a fascinating story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.