Charles Angelo Siringo was one of the most famous detectives of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, served as a lawman for many years, and became an author. Born on February 7, 1855, in Matagorda County, Texas, to an Irish immigrant mother and an Italian immigrant father, he attended public school until he was 15 when he started working as a cowboy at area ranches.
Working for several Texas ranches over the next several years, he became a trail driver in 1876, accompanying a herd of 2,500 Longhorns over the Chisholm Trail from Austin to Kansas. He made a second trip in the spring of 1877, following the trail’s western branch.
Italian crossed with an Irish, damn talk about a mean combination..
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Yep, their kids walk around pissed off all the time but don't know why.
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Good one 😅
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Charlie's book "A Texas Cow Boy, or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony" is top notch.
ReplyDeleteChalie died and is buried in Altadena, California, which is currently burning in the 13,690 acre Eaton Fire.
I've read his book "A Texas Cowboy - 15 years on the hurricane deck of a wild Spanish pony"
ReplyDeleteI read his autobiography. Good writer.
ReplyDeleteAs I recall, the rope Tom Horn is pictured making is the one eventually used to hang him.
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