Charlie Siringo's West: An Interpretive Biography

Charlie Siringo's West: An Interpretive Biography
Charlie Siringo's West first edition cover.
Author(s)	Howard R. Lamar
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject(s)	Biography
Publisher	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date	November 30, 2005
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	384 pp (first edition)
ISBN	9780826336699
OCLC Number	60421190
Dewey Decimal	976.4/092 B 22
LC Classification	F391.S624 L36 2005

Charlie Siringo's West: An Interpretive Biography is a biography of former Pinkerton Detective Charlie Siringo, by historian Howard R. Lamar. It was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2005.

In addition to its purely biographical theme, the book examines Siringo's life in the context of the Pinkerton agency's descent into illegality, and the increasing romanticisation of "Wild West" characters by a fast-growing Hollywood film industry of the 1920's.^[1]

The book won the 2006 Bronze Wrangler award for nonfiction from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.

Editions

• Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2005 [1], ISBN 0-8263-3669-8

References

1. ^ Utley, Robert M. (2006). "Charlie Siringo's West: An Interpretive Biography". Montana: the Magazine of Western History (Montana Historical Society) (Summer 2006).