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Legends of the Old West

PINKERTONS Ep. 5 | “Charlie Siringo: Into the Mines”

Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

Arts, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In the late 1880s, James McParland joins the Denver office and quickly becomes superintendent. With McParland at the helm, Charlie Siringo receives assignments involving labor unions in the West. In 1891, Siringo goes to the Idaho Panhandle with orders to infiltrate a local labor union in a case which would nearly cost him his life. Thanks to our sponsor, HelloFresh! To get started, check out our plan: HelloFresh.com/legends10fm Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On a cold spring morning in 1888, Sheriff Cyrus

0:39.3

escorted a scruffy, slender man into a jail cell in Montrose, Colorado.

0:45.3

The man was Charles Lawrence, an accused wife killer from Wyoming.

0:50.3

Sheriff Shores found Lawrence in his county and agreed to send him back to Wyoming to stand trial.

0:56.5

Except Charles Lawrence was actually Charlie Seringo, and he was hired by Shores to investigate

1:02.3

three men suspected of robbing a train. Those three men were now Seringo's cellmates.

1:09.6

Since becoming a detective for the Pinkerton agency,

1:13.0

Charlie Soringo was always playing a character.

1:16.0

But before becoming an operative,

1:18.0

Seringo had spent 15 years as a cowboy in his home state of Texas.

1:22.7

His extensive time on the range gave him tracking skills

1:26.0

and the ability to handle tough characters.

1:29.3

Seringo had retired from cowboy life and moved to Chicago, but no sooner had he arrived,

1:35.3

then the Haymarket affair exploded. The violence convinced Seringo he needed to become a detective.

1:42.3

Once hired, the Pinkertons sent Sringo to Denver. For two years,

1:47.1

Soringo went undercover and infiltrated various gangs in order to bring lawbreakers to justice,

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