Charlie Siringo's West

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Front cover of Charlie Siringo's West, 2005 edition.

Charlie Siringo's West: An Interpretive Biography, by Howard R. Lamar, is a biography of the famous cowboy, Pinkerton detective, and author. Siringo's autobiography, A Texas Cowboy: or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of A Spanish Pony, was the first and most famous of those by cowboys who first rode the trails out of Texas to the railheads in Kansas.

It was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2005.

The book won the 2006 Wrangler Award for Nonfiction given by the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.

[edit] Table of contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Charlie Siringo and the Several Worlds of Matagorda Bay
2. Civil War Comes to Matagorda Bay, 1850-1867
3. Rites of Passage: St. Louis and the Mississippi River Experience, 1867-1870
4. Shanghai Pierce and El Rancho Grande: The Texas Cattle Industry from the Open Range to Corporate Enterprise, 1854-1900
5. The Great Adventure: Charlie Siringo and Billy the Kid on the Texas Panhandle Frontier, 1877-1882
6. "Queen City of the Border": Caldwell, Kansas, 1871-1885
7. Rendezvous with Destiny: Charlie Siringo, The Haymarket Riot, and the Pinkertons, 1886-1890
8. Charlie Siring Discovers New Mexico Politics: The Ancheta Case and After, 1891-1893
9. The Bloody Coeur d'Alene Strike, 1891-1893
10. Chasing Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and a Great Many Others, 1899-1903
11. Two Victories and a Defeat: Alaskan Gold Thieves, Kentucky Moonshiners, and the Haywood Trial in Idaho
12. The Trials of an Author, 1912-1922: Siringo's A Cowboy Detective and Two Evil Isms Versus the Pinkertons, and a Retreat down Memory Lane—Billy The Kid and Lone Star Cowboy
13. Recognition at Last!: Charlie Siringo in Hollywood, 1923-1928
Notes
Bibliography
Index