Charles A. Siringo (1855–1928)
Autor von A Texas Cowboy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
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Major Problems in the History of the American West: Documents and Essays (1989) — Mitwirkender — 63 Exemplare
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- Siringo, Charles Angelo
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- 1855-02-07
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- 1928-10-18
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- Inglewood Cemetery, Inglewood, California, USA
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- Matagorda County, Texas
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- Altadena, California, USA
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- Pinkerton National Detective Agency
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Siringo notes that he was sympathetic to the nascent labor movement and was reluctant to get involved in the famous Coeur d’Alene miner’s strike, but changed his mind when the miners began attacking mine owners with dynamite. When his cover story was broken, he narrowly escaped being lynched by miners by sawing through a bedroom floor and crawling away undetected. Siringo, in turn, prevented a plan to lynch Bill Haywood, Clarence Darrow, and other union members and sympathizers.
His writing style is straightforward, and, unfortunately, not politically correct; Irish immigrants and black people he encounters are always quoted in dialect, usually not favorably. Siringo knew just about every famous name from Western history – Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch (he expresses some admiration for Cassidy, calling him one of the shrewdest and most honorable criminals he had to deal with). Illustrated with a few contemporary photographs. No notes, bibliography, or index.… (mehr)