Riata and Spurs: The Story of a Lifetime Spent in the Saddle as Cowboy and Detective

xiv, 276 pp. Firsthand experience of a cowboy and lawman in the Old West, including chapters on Billy the Kid, the trial of the anarchists accused in the Haymarket incident, train robbers, the Kid Curry Bunch, Ethel Barrymore, etc. Includes several photographic plates. SGSL: "The first half of this book was taken from the author's A Cowboy Detective... with real names in place of fictional ones. Siringo was a persistent soul and seemed determined to use the enjoined material in all his books; but when the publisher's attention was called to this objectionable material, the books were recalled and a corrected and revised edition was released. Pages 120 to 268 were suppressed in the new edition, and all references to the author's experiences with the Pinkerton Agency were cut out and material on bad men substituted. Only a few copies of the original printing survived; hence its scarcity. Siringo helped perpetuate some of the false legends about Billy the Kid."