Texas Cowboy

Growing up along the gulf coast of Texas, a young boy learns to ride horsesand rope steers, and at an early age, he finds employment with a local rancher.Soon he is driving cattle all over the untamed West and landing in precarious,yet amusing, situations.Based upon the authoris life, A Texas Cow Boy is truly aclassic of the Old West. From his days as a young troublemaker to the capture ofBilly the Kid, Chas. A. Siringo, with humor and honesty, brings tolife the rough and exciting stories of the men and women who tamed the wildcountry.ABOUT THE AUTHORCharles Angelo Siringo was born in Matagorda County, Texas in 1855. His loveof horses drove him to the cattle business where in 1880, he joined a posse thatwas pursuing the notorious Billy the Kid. A year later Siringohelped a group of Texas cattlemen bust up a ring of horse thieves. In 1886,shortly after arriving in Chicago with his wife and young daughter, he joinedthe Pinkerton Detective Agency. There he helped convict several men responsiblefor the Haymarket Riots. This led to more work for Siringo, who would go on tosolve many cases by using his skills as a horseman to go undercover and blendin. Retirement took him to Hollywood, where he was an advisor on the sets ofmany westerns. He died in October of 1928.Siringo, Charles A. is the author of 'Texas Cowboy', published 2001 under ISBN 9781565549692 and ISBN 1565549694.