Working Undercover in the Violent 1892 Coeur d’Alene Labor Strike BY CHARLES A. SIRINGO On reaching a place of safety on the heavily timbered mountain side about three miles from Wallace, [at the conclusion of “the first act in the violent Coeur d’Alene miners’ strike of 1892] , Stark [a young non union guard] and […]
Cowboy Detective
Working Undercover in the Violent 1892 Coeur d’Alene Labor Strike BY CHARLES A. SIRINGO I concluded it was time for me to emigrate [in other words, leave the scene fast, while taking cover from gunfire, and after having been discovered as a Pinkerton spy during the bloody Coeur d’Alene miner’s strike of 1892], so I […]
Cowboy Detective
BY CHARLES SIRINGO Originally published in 1912 The writer was born in Matagorda County, Texas, in the extreme southern part of the State, in 1855, and was reared on the upper deck of all kinds and conditions of cow-ponies scattered throughout the Lone Star State, Kansas, Indian Territory and New Mexico. I spent fifteen years […]