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23
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
28/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Nathan Ward
Publisher:
Atlantic Monthly Press
Date:
September 5, 2023
A narrative of the Old West told through the outsized life of cowboy, detective, and chronicler Charlie Siringo.
What The Reviewers Say
As with much of Ward’s source material, Siringo’s life can feel retrospectively absurd, too authentic to be real.
As much a chronicle of the Old West as it is the study of a colorful, and ubiquitous, frontiersman.
Ward’s book is dense with research and description. Sometimes too dense. Colorful stories — of horse thieving, dangerous wagon journeys, double-crossing and shootouts — occasionally sag under the weight of benign particulars..
The larger-than-life, Texas-born cowboy Charlie Siringo lived a life normally reserved for fiction, one every bit as full of adventure, intrigue, and derring-do as any western movie.
