Son Of The Old West. The Odyssey Of Charlie Siringo: Cowboy, Detective, Writer Of The Wild Frontier

NATHAN WARD

Publication: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023, New York

First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author on the title page. Light blue boards, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, maps on front and rear endpapers, xvii [blank], 347 pp., author's note, prelude, illustrated mostly from photographs, portraits, map. Acknowledgments, selected bibliography, notes, index. An epic narrative of the Old West told through the vivid, outsized life of cowboy, detective, and chronicler Charlie Siringo. Born in Matagorda, Texas in 1855, Charlie went on his first cattle drive at age twelve and spent two decades living his boyhood dream as a cowboy. In his early thirties he joined the Pinkerton Detective Agency’s Denver office, using a variety of aliases to investigate violent labor disputes and infiltrate outlaw gangs such as Butch Cassidy’s train robbing Wild Bunch. No figure in the Old West lived or shaped its history more fully than Charlie Siringo, as Nathan Ward reveals in his colorful portrait of this epic era and one of its primary protagonists. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.