A cowboy detective : $b a true story of twenty-two years with a world-famous detective agency; giving the inside facts of the bloody Coeur d'Alene labor riots, and the many ups and downs of the author throughout the United States, Alaska, British Columbia and Old Mexico, also exciting scenes among the moonshiners of Kentucky and Virginia
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"A cowboy detective" by Charles A. Siringo is a memoir written in the early 20th century. It traces a cowboy-turned-operative through decades of undercover work with a prominent detective agency across the American West and beyond, recounting labor strife, mine wars, train robberies, and outlaw hunting in a blunt, plainspoken style.
The opening of the memoir sets a factual, unvarnished tone: a preface explains delays due to former employers’ objections and the use of some fictitious names, stressing that these are true adventures, not fiction. Siringo sketches his Texas cowboy youth, his proximity to the Chicago Haymarket riot, a fortuitous push toward detective work (via a blind phrenologist and a bank introduction), a brief jailing after a circus fracas, and his first cases—including the anarchist trials, Irish National League surveillance, and city “shadowing”—before moving to Denver. He then recounts infiltrating an armed uprising in Colorado’s Archuleta County (narrowly escaping
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