Blown Out of Bed

A deep distrust of law and order was felt throughout the West in the 1880s ... for good reason. Labor and Capital fought tooth and nail for their causes, and sometimes even to murderous ends. Charlie Siringo, the man credited with writing the first autobiography of a working cowboy in 1885, had changed gears from tracking cattle and cattle rustlers to trailing outlaws for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. One colorful adventure he had in Tuscarora, Nevada, in the summer of 1889, is a t