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Legends of the Old West

PINKERTONS Ep. 6 | “Charlie Siringo: The Wild Bunch”

Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

Arts, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In June of 1899, an outlaw gang robs a train outside of Wilcox, Wyoming. The gang is the Wild Bunch led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Pinkerton agency receives the assignment to stop the gang once and for all, and Charlie Siringo conducts a 4-year manhunt for the elusive thieves. 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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1:12.1

Subject to availability, serving time supply. In the middle of July, 499, 49-year-old Pinkerton agent Charlie Soringo stepped into James McParland's office and received his next assignment.

1:16.2

Seringo assumed he would have to infiltrate another mining union.

1:21.3

McParland, Seringo's boss in the Denver office of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, had been an undercover operative in unions 20 years earlier.

1:25.9

For the better part of a decade, the bulk of Seringo's cases

1:29.0

involved mining unions. Of all the cases Seringo had undertaken, probably the most dangerous

1:35.5

had involved infiltrating a union in the Idaho Panhandle. For 14 months, Seringo lived and

1:42.4

worked with the miners around Cordillane.

1:45.2

While he sympathized with their plight, he believed their leaders were exploitative anarchists.

1:51.2

During the case, he was accused of being a traitor and was nearly lynched.

1:55.8

That had been seven years ago.

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