Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download A Cowboy Detective full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online A Cowboy Detective ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Charles A. Siringo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Cowboy Detective written by Charles A. Siringo and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles A. Siringo
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803291898
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (918 download)
Download or read book A Cowboy Detective written by Charles A. Siringo and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of cowboying, Charles A. Siringo had settled down to store-keeping in Caldwell, Kansas, when a blind phrenologist, traveling through, took the measure of his "mule head" and told him that he was "cut out" for detective work. Thereupon, Siringo joined the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1886. A Cowboy Detective chronicles his twenty-two years as an undercover operative in wilder parts of the West, where he rode with the lawless, using more stratagems and guises than Sherlock Holmes to bring them to justice and escaping violent death more often than Dick Tracy. He survived the labor riots at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in 1892 (his testimony helped convict eighteen union leaders), hounded moonshiners in the Appalachians, and chased Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch. Once described as "a small wiry man, cold and steady as a rock" and "born without fear," Charlie Siringo became a favorite of high-ups in the Pinkerton organization. Nevertheless, the Pinkertons, ever sensitive to criticism, went to court to block publication of Siringo's book. Frank Morn, in his introduction to this Bison Books edition, discusses the changes that resulted from two years of litigation. Finally published in 1912 without Pinkerton in the title or the text, A Cowboy Detective has Siringo working for the "Dickensen Detective Agency" and meeting up with the likes of "Tim Corn," whom every western buff will recognize. The deeper truth of Siringo's book remains. As J. Frank Dobie wrote, "His cowboys and gunmen were not of Hollywood and folklore. He was an honest reporter.
Author : Charles A. Siringo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book A Cowboy Detective written by Charles A. Siringo and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles A. Siringo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (554 download)
Download or read book A Texas Cow-boy written by Charles A. Siringo and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard R. Lamar
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826361668
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Charlie Siringo's West written by Howard R. Lamar and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. His love of the cattle business and of cowboy life was so great that in 1885 he published A Texas Cowboy, or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony—Taken From Real Life, which Will Rogers dubbed the “Cowboy’s Bible.” Howard R. Lamar’s biography deftly shares Siringo’s story within seventy-five pivotal years of western history. Siringo was not a mere observer but a participant in major historical events including the Coeur d’Alene mining strikes of the 1890s and Big Bill Haywood’s trial in 1907. 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.
Author : Steve Hockensmith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781790516162
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Double-A Western Detective Agency written by Steve Hockensmith and published by . This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Holmes on the Range mystery" -- Cover.
Author : Charles A. Siringo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Two Evil Isms, Pinkertonism and Anarchism written by Charles A. Siringo and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 0786044918
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Range Detectives written by W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling masters of western fiction launch a new series featuring two tough frontier detectives who solve the bloodiest crimes with bravado, brains, and bullets blazing. Original.
Author : Ben E. Pingenot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Siringo written by Ben E. Pingenot and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few nineteenthcentury western figures had the wide range of experiences and acquaintances that Charles A. Siringo had. Stubborn and egotistical yet honest and freespirited, cowboy and private eye Charlie Siringo wrote several autobiographies that captured the interest of thousands of readers and contributed to the myth of the cowboylawman as an archetypal western hero. Charles Siringo was born on the Texas Gulf Coast in 1855. At an early age he became a cowboy, driving longhorn cattle up the Chisholm Trail. Shortly after writing his first autobiography, A Texas Cowboy, Siringo moved to Chicago, where he heard the bomb explosion that set off the Haymarket riot, and he witnessed its aftermath. The incident motivated him to join the worldfamous Pinkerton's detective agency, and for the next twentytwo years he tracked criminals, traveling throughout the West and to such faraway places as Alaska and Mexico City. Siringo eventually left the Pinkerton agency in 1907 and moved to Santa Fe to become a rancher, writer, and freelance detective. His second autobiography, originally entitled Pinkerton's Cowboy Detective, resulted in a lawsuit and launched a bitter conflict between Siringo and the agency. Ben Pingenot's biography of Siringo reveals him as a truly unique individual, but one with human imperfections. The result is the story of a man in the context of his times, of a man whose path crossed those of Billy the Kid, Bat Masterson, Clarence Darrow, Charles M. Russell, Will Rogers, and others. It is a story of a character just as interesting as Siringo's writings made him appear, but far more complex than he knew, and more thoroughly human than any stiff mythical figure of Western lore.
Author : Charles A. Siringo
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781977905895
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)
Download or read book A Cowboy Detective written by Charles A. Siringo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Angelo Siringo (February 7, 1855-October 18, 1928), was an American lawman, detective, and agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Siringo was born in Matagorda County, Texas to an Irish immigrant mother and an Italian immigrant father from Piedmont. He attended public school until reaching the age of 15, when he started working on local ranches as a cowboy. After taking part in several cattle drives, Siringo stopped herding to settle down, get married (1884), and open a merchant business in Caldwell, Kansas. He began writing a book, entitled A Texas Cowboy; Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony. A year later, it was published, to wide acclaim, and became one of the first true looks into life as a cowboy written by someone who had actually lived the life. In 1886, bored with the mundane life of a merchant, Siringo moved to Chicago and joined the Pinkerton Detective Agency. He used gunman Pat Garrett's name as a reference to get the job, having met Garrett several years before. He was immediately assigned several cases, which took him as far north as Alaska, and as far south as Mexico City. He began operating undercover, a relatively new technique at the time, and infiltrated gangs of robbers and rustlers, making over one hundred arrests. Siringo retired in 1907, and began writing another book, entitled Pinkerton's Cowboy Detective. The Pinkerton Detective Agency held up publication for two years, feeling it violated their confidentiality agreement that Siringo had signed when he was hired and objecting to the use of their name. Siringo gave in, and deleted their name from the book title, instead writing two separate books, entitled A Cowboy Detective and Further Adventures of a Cowboy Detective. This edition of the book contains all 23 original illustrations, rejuvenated.
Author : James Clay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719813177
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Wild West Detective written by James Clay and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rance Dehner, an operative for the Lowrie Detective Agency, pursues a wanted killer to the small town of Hardin, Texas. After bringing down the killer in a gunfight, Dehner discovers the gunslick was in town to murder Leona Carson, a penniless 14 year old girl with a baby. Dehner cannot understand why anyone would employ a gun for hire to kill Leona, and finding the answer to that question throws him into a whirlwind of violent encounters. Soon he must dodge bullets from an onslaught of professional killers, while uncovering the shameful secrets of Hardin's leading citizens.
Author : Ulf Nilsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1776570596
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (765 download)
Download or read book A Complicated Case written by Ulf Nilsson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When one of the animals is saying nasty things about the other forest creatures, Detective Gordon and his assistant Buffy investigate to find the culprit.
Author : Charles A. Siringo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Lone Star Cowboy written by Charles A. Siringo and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathan Ward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632862778
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book The Lost Detective written by Nathan Ward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2016 Edgar Award Nominee Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest hard-boiled crime writer, before his attachment to Lillian Hellman and blacklisting during the McCarthy era, and his subsequent downward spiral, Dashiell Hammett led a life of action. Born in 1894 into a poor Maryland family, Hammett left school at fourteen and held several jobs before joining the Pinkerton National Detective Agency as an operative in 1915 and, with time off in 1918 to serve at the end of World War I, he remained with the agency until 1922, participating alike in the banal and dramatic action of an operative. The tuberculosis he contracted during the war forced him to leave the Pinkertons--but it may well have prompted one of America's most acclaimed writing careers. While Hammett's life on center stage has been well-documented, the question of how he got there has not. That largely overlooked phase is the subject of Nathan Ward's enthralling The Lost Detective. Hammett's childhood, his life in San Francisco, and especially his experience as a detective deeply informed his writing and his characters, from the nameless Continental Op, hero of his stories and early novels, to Sam Spade and Nick Charles. The success of his many stories in the pulp magazine Black Mask following his departure from the Pinkertons led him to novels; he would write five between 1929 and 1934, two of them (The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man) now American classics. Though he inspired generations of writers, from Chandler to Connelly and all in between, after The Thin Man he never finished another book, a painful silence for his devoted readers; and his popular image has long been shaped by the remembrance of Hellman, who knew him after his literary reputation had been made. Based on original research across the country, The Lost Detective is the first book to illuminate Hammett's transformation from real detective to great American detective writer, throwing brilliant new light on one of America's most celebrated and remembered novelists and his world.
Author : Lori Wilde
Publisher : Cowboy Confidential
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Cowboy Cop written by Lori Wilde and published by Cowboy Confidential. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad luck Mondays! Cowboy Nick Holden distracts himself by taming wild horses on the family ranch after a scandal up-ends his career as a police detective. He thinks he's put the past behind him until... Spunky librarian Lucy Moore hires Nick to prove her brother innocent of a serious crime, and this cowboy cop finds himself in for the wildest ride of his life.
Author : Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0143126075
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Pinkerton's Great Detective written by Beau Riffenburgh and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the legendary Pinkerton detective who took down the Molly Maguires and the Wild Bunch The operatives of the Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency were renowned for their skills of subterfuge, infiltration, and investigation, none more so than James McParland. So thrilling were McParland’s cases that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle included the cunning detective in a story along with Sherlock Holmes. Riffenburgh digs deep into the recently released Pinkerton archives to present the first biography of McParland and the agency’s cloak-and-dagger methods. Both action packed and meticulously researched, Pinkerton’s Great Detective brings readers along on McParland’s most challenging cases: from young McParland’s infiltration of the murderous Molly Maguires gang in the case that launched his career to his hunt for the notorious Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch to his controversial investigation of the Western Federation of Mines in the assassination of Idaho’s former governor. Filled with outlaws and criminals, detectives and lawmen, Pinkerton’s Great Detective shines a light upon the celebrated secretive agency and its premier sleuth.
Author : Max O'Hara
Publisher : Pinnacle
ISBN 13 : 0786047100
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Wolf Stockburn, Railroad Detective written by Max O'Hara and published by Pinnacle. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing a rail blazing new series set in the early days of the transcontinental railroad--when America headed West, outlaws climbed on board, and one man risked his life to stop them in their tracks... The newspapers call them the Devil's Horde. A well oiled team of cutthroat bandits who terrorize the Northern Pacific Railway on route to the coast through Dakota Territory. They dynamite the tracks, blow open the express car door, murder the crewmen, rob the passengers, and empty the safe of gold and cash. If Wells Fargo & Company can't find a way to stop the Devil's Horde, there'll be hell to pay... Enter Wolf Stockburn. A tall rangy Scotsman who dresses like a gentleman but shoots like a cowboy, Stockburn learned his craft from a legendary gunfighter--and honed his skills as a Pony Express rider through hostile Indian country. Now the veteran Wells Fargo's detective will ride the rails from coast to coast. Make sure the train and its passengers reach their destination safely. And take down the Devil's Horde--one by one, bullet by bullet--the devil be damned...
