Most Feared Bounty Hunters of the Wild West: Charles Siringo...
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Published 2023-06-05
It could also relate to polar opposites. Both lawmen and outlaws alike were forms of gunfighters, always armed and ready for a show, either for the greater good or the selfish bad. Gunfighters were also men, and sometimes women, who were otherwise members of everyday industries, such as farmers or teamsters, the drivers of wagons, stagecoaches and after the turn of the 20th century, automobiles.
Even folks stuck with the labels of “con man” and “gambler” were referred to generally as gunfighters, people who could defend themselves when their vice of choice led them into murkier waters. Of all the professions spanning all the industries, the most fascinating subgroup of gunfighters was the bounty hunters, men dispatched by both the government and powerful entities who venture out across the land in search of a man or woman who owes someone else money or other goods.
While bounty hunting wasn’t as popular a career as many Hollywood films and tales of the wild west suggest, it was a way for some of the most experienced and isolated gunfighters to make a living, while using their talents to the best of their abilities. To cover these intriguing and incendiary figures of western frontier lore, here’s the next video in our series of both famous and infamous bounty hunters, continuing with the legendary Pinkerton Detective and bounty hunter, Charles Siringo.
0:00 Introduction
1:57 Early Life and Career
10:12 Pinkerton’s Finest Bounty Hunter
20:15 The Final Pages
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All Comments (21)
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The improvements y'all have been showing since the beginning is so fun to watch happen in real time! Will be honored to say I was one of the first subscribers one day when you hit 1 mil
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I appreciate your coverage at length, instead of a 5 to 10 minute bare outline of this formative era. - props.
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Just this video alone introduced me to Mr Siringo and mustered a respect for the frontiersman. Ive already placed two of his books in my basket online.
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this channel's production quality is impressive considering how new it is, keep up the good work guys hope it grows into something capable of supporting the whole team
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Well done. See also: SON OF THE OLD WEST: The Odyssey of Charlie Siringo (2023).
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this is the first time I've had the pleasure to see your excellent work. Keep up the interesting info and let the news flow. Great job done!!! I love westerns. ❤
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Really good video. What could make a Southerner join the Pinkertons on the first place boggles the mind. Be nothing but trouble. A man cannot live well in two worlds. Siringos life is proof of this. His books are top notch. He was a hellava man for sure. Pinkerton or not.
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Imagine what these hard ass man from the old west would think about this guy narrating their story 😂
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I LOVE those new section titles. They look like something out of an old book!
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I was thinking that it was Tom Horn and Frank Canton who said, that Charlie Siringo was a poor Lawman and tracker. I maybe getting my lawmen mixed up. That was during the time Tom Horn was a pinkerton, before he became a hitman.
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I love history and reading, and of course the old west, guess I need to check his books out. This is a great video, thank you.
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I think a good follow up to this is a famous gunslinger. I’m certain there are similarities but also differences to both gunslingers and gunfighters.
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Thank you
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The old bounty hunter ! had the street smarts of the 1800s
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Thanks y’all for your Coolbeans
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Back in the dar, the term "gunman was used in the way we use the term "swordsman".
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So we learned anyone who fights with a gun is a gunfighter. Nice
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You are a good storyteller, with an eye for worthy material.
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This is a good video but it neglected to mention the role of Frank Stewart, who also worked for the LX and was a friend of Siringo. Stewart would go on to lead a contingent of cowboys who eventually joined with Siringo and his group who were also searching for Billy the Kid. Stewart was hired as a stock detective of the Canadian River Cattlemens Association (which became the Panhandle-Plains Cattlemens Association) and the two posses joined with Pat Garrett to finally corner the Kid and his gang at Stinking Spring in December, 1880. They captured the Kid and his gang and took them to Las Vegas, Santa Fe (for the reward), resulting in the Kid finally landing in the jail at Lincoln, New Mexico where they Kid escaped. See newly uncovered information in the book, "Chasing Billy the Kid: Frank Stewart and the Untold Story of the Manhunt for William H. Bonney" (2022).
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Respectively, try to use pictures of the era rather than photos of a desk with a calculator on it. I doubt the photos are authentic.
