The Cowboy as Detective: Finding Charlie Siringo’s West
Charlie Siringo’s frontier life filled five autobiographies. His book about his two decades “playing outlaw” as a Pinkerton operative provoked the agency’s long campaign to silence him, and inspired American crime writers such as Dashiell Hammett. “When the final call comes,” Siringo judged toward the end, “I shall have to take my medicine, with Satan holding the spoon.”
By Nathan Ward | September 5, 2023
The Bizarre Story of the 'Cowboy Mutiny'
In 1902, Captain Robert Peattie was attacked aboard the Leicester Castle by a disgruntled sailor, who then killed the ship’s 2nd mate before escaping with two others on a flimsy raft. The Captain assumed the men had soon drowned in the South Pacific until he was called to America, with four bullets still in his body, to identify a suspect living as an Arizona Sheriff.
By Nathan Ward | July 6, 2023
Falling in Love with The Rockford Files—All Over Again
By Nathan Ward | June 4, 2020
The Tragic, Violent History of the Brooklyn Waterfront
By Nathan Ward | July 17, 2019
Wild Bill, We Hardly Knew Ye
By Nathan Ward | May 31, 2019
