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  2. Tom Horn - Wikipedia

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    As a deputy sheriff, Horn drew the attention of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency owing to his tracking abilities. Hired by the agency in late 1889 or early 1890, he handled investigations in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Wyoming, and other western states, working out of the Denver office. He became known for his calm-under-pressure ...

  3. Charlie Siringo - Wikipedia

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    A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-Two Years With A World-Famous Detective Agency. Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company. ISBN 0-8032-9189-2 — (1915). Two Evil Isms, Pinkertonism and Anarchism: By A Cowboy Detective Who Knows, as He Spent Twenty-Two Years in the Inner Circle of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency.

  4. Jim Courtright (gunman) - Wikipedia

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    Moore sold his Adobe Walls Ranch for $75,000 (or about $2,400,000 in today's dollars) and used $25,000 of the proceeds to buy a one-third interest in Casey's American Valley Cattle Company. Courtright may have initially believed he was only hired to pursue cattle rustlers.

  5. Cattle thief stole 3,000 Charlotte-area cows, sold them in ...

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    A North Carolina cattle thief “relied on his family’s good reputation in the cattle trading business” when he bought 3,000 cows at livestock markets in the Charlotte area and Virginia ...

  6. James McParland - Wikipedia

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    James McParland [Note 1] (né McParlan; [Note 2] 22 March 1844 [3] – 18 May 1919) was an American private detective and Pinkerton agent.. McParland arrived in New York in 1867. He worked as a laborer, policeman and then in Chicago as a liquor store owner [4] [5] until the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed his busine

  7. Etta Place - Wikipedia

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    The Pinkerton Detective Agency described her, in 1906, as having, ... Another conjecture is that she was a cattle rustler named Ann Bassett (1878–1956), who knew ...

  8. Frank M. Canton - Wikipedia

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    He is portrayed, however, as a senior cattle baron, rather than a detective and lawman living in 1890. Canton is the basis for Jesse Jacklin in the 2002 television movie Johnson County War. [citation needed] Canton, played by Ed Nelson, is a guest character in the "What Happened at the XST?" episode (1972) of Alias Smith and Jones.

  9. Sam Bass (outlaw) - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Bass (July 21, 1851 – July 21, 1878) was a 19th-century American train robber, outlaw, and outlaw gang leader.Notably, he was a member of a gang of six that robbed a Union Pacific train in Nebraska of $60,000 in newly minted gold from San Francisco, California.