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Riata and Spurs makes Charlie Siringo’s cowboy epic
Elmo Scott Watson praises Charlie Siringo’s Riata and Spurs as a genuine epic of the West. The piece traces Siringo’s odyssey from Matagorda Texas to longhorn drives, Dodge City, and Chicago, then to a Pinkerton detective career including the “Wild Bunch” hunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Andy Adams
Philip Ashton Rollins
Trail Drivers of
Texas
Trail Drivers’ Association
Charlie Siringo
Charlie
New York
Matagorda County
St. Louis
Illinois
Natchez
New Orleans
Matagorda
Shanghai” Pierce
Jonathan
Rancho Grande
Hills
Chisholm Trail
W. B. Grimes
Kansas Market
Wichita
Kan
Liza-Jane
Siringo
Dodge City
Sweetwater
Tascosa
Mobeetie
Lone Star Dance Hall
Bat Masterson
Old Man Goodnight
John Chisum
Bears
Bill Moore
Sheriff Brown
Billy the Kid
Jim East
Pat Garrett
Lincoln County
Pal F Carrety
Sam Bass
Pinkerton Agency
Butch Cassidy
Kid Curry
Wild Bunch
Montana
Wyoming
Utah
Oklahoma
Caldwell
Sir Ingo
Chicago
Haymarket
Pinkertons
American
Alaska
Tennyson
Ulysses
Odysseus
Charlie’ Siringo