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Charlie Siringo's West - An Interpretive Biography (Hardcover)
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Charlie Siringo's West - An Interpretive Biography (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 860
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Charlie Siringo (1855-1928) lived the quintessential life of
adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton
detective, writer, and later as a consultant for early western
films. Siringo was one of the most attractive, bold, and original
characters to live and flourish in the final decades of the Wild
West. Siringo's love of the cattle business and of cowboy life were
so great that in 1885 he published a rollicking, picaresque account
of his experiences in 'A Texas Cowboy,' or 'Fifteen Years on the
Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony -- Taken From Real Life,' which
Will Rogers dubbed 'The Cowboy's Bible'. In short, Siringo was a
key player in shaping the romantic image of the Wild West cowboy.
Howard Lamar's biography deftly shares Siringo's story with
historians and the general public interested in the American West.
Lamar's account is structured within seventy-five pivotal years of
western history, from the Civil War in Texas to Hollywood's
glorification of the West in the 1920s. Siringo was not a mere
observer, but a participant in major historical events including
the Coeur d'Alene mining strikes of the 1890s and Big Bill
Haywood's trial in 1907. Within this framework, Lamar focuses on
Siringo's youthful struggles to employ his abundant athleticism and
ambitions and how Siringo's varied experiences helped develop the
compelling national myth of the cowboy.
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