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A Texas Cow Boy [Illustrated] (1886)
Charlie Siringo
ASIN: B00LQU14GC
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 159

"One of the chief molders of the cowboy image was Charles A. Siringo, a small thin but fearless Texan." -Charlie Siringo's West (2005)"Siringo proved to be a masterful bloodhound with an incredible record of getting his man." - Man-Hunters of the Old West (2017) Charlie 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.In March, April and May 1877, Siringo was in Dodge City, Kansas during an alleged confrontation between Clay Allison and Wyatt Earp, Earp was a Deputy Marshal at the time. Earp later claimed, after Allison's death in 1887, that he and Bat Masterson had forced Allison to back down from an impending confrontation. Siringo, however, later gave a written account of that incident which contradicted ...
Amazon Rating:
4.5 stars from 10 ratings