Table of Contents:
  • Charlie Siringo and the several worlds of Matagorda Bay
  • Civil War comes to Matagorda Bay, 1850-1867
  • Rites of passage: St. Louis and the Mississippi River experience, 1867-1870
  • Shanghai Pierce and El Rancho Grande: the Texas cattle industry from the open range to corporate enterprise, 1854-1900
  • The great adventure: Charlie Siringo and Billy the Kid on the Texas panhandle frontier, 1877-1882
  • "Queen city of the border": Caldwell, Kansas, 1871-1885
  • Rendezvous with destiny: Charlie Siringo, the Haymarket riot, and the Pinkertons, 1886-1890
  • Charlie Siringo discovers New Mexico politics: the Ancheta case and after, 1891-1898
  • The bloody Coeur d'Alene strike, 1891-1893
  • Chasing Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and a great many others, 1899-1903
  • Two victories and a defeat: Alaskan gold thieves, Kentucky moonshiners, and the Haywood trial in Idaho
  • The trials of an author, 1912-1922: Siringo's A cowboy detective, and Two evil isms versus the Pinkertons, and retreat down memory lane: Billy the Kid and Lone Star cowboy
  • Recognition at last! Charlie Siringo in Hollywood, 1923-1928.