Buffalo, Custer, Wyoming and More from Old West Books
By Michael Stillman
Old West Books has issued a new catalogue of Rare, Out of Print Books on the American West. This one is broken into six subjects, Custer, Buffalo, Charles A. Siringo, Wyoming, Lewis and Clark, and A Little of Everything. Those are self-explanatory, except... Charles A. Siringo? I had to look him up. Siringo was a Texan with two careers, cowboy and detective. He was also a writer, authoring several books about both careers. His writing about the second career would ultimately get him in trouble with his former employer, Pinkertons, about whom he wrote something of an e...