History of Billy the Kid
Charles A. SIRINGO (1855 - 1928)
MP3 CD
(IDB Productions, March 15, 2017)
Billy the Kid is a young desperado cowboy whose youthful tactics were never measured in the chronicles of criminal accounts. He began his notorious activities when he was a young adult, about the age of 22, he murdered a number of 21 men, where Indians are excluded. Charles Angelo seems like he is indeed adept in writing a true and undisguised historical account of Billy the Kid, as the author has actually met him, and assisted him in his apprehension, by providing Sheriff Pat Garret with 3 of his fighting cowboys - Jas. H. East, Lee Hall and Lon Chambers. Charles Angelo Siringo was an American lawyer, detective and an agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Charles Angelo was born in Matagorda County, Texas, to an Irish migrant mother and an Italian migrant father from Piedmont. He studied in a public school up to the age of 15, and he began his work as a cowboy on local ranches. In March, April and May 1877, Charles Angelo went to Dodge City, Kansas, in a purported argument between Clay Allison and Wyatt Earp, who was a deputy marshal during that time. Then, Wyatt stated, after the death of Clay in 1887, that he and Bat Masterson had strained Clay to stop retorting on an imminent refutation. After that, Charles Angelo handed a written record of the instance which denied Wyatt's assertion, saying that Wyatt did not come into contact with Clay, and the two marketers, cattleman Dick McNulty and the owner of the Long Branch Saloon, Chalkley Beeson, in Dodge City resolved the episode. After working in so many cattle herds, Charles Angelo stopped working to get married in 1884 and began an enterprise in Caldwell, Kansas. He started creating a novel entitled, A Texas Cowboy; Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony. Right after, it was printed, and very well received, and it was among the first genuine insight into his life as a cowboy.