Real Cowboy Wrote Bestsellers

By May 5, 1927, two weeks after Riata and Spurs hit bookstores, the last book by the first real cowboy author had sold thousands of copies with readers clamoring for more. The son of an Italian father and an Irish mother, Charles Angelo Siringo came into the world in the Gulf Coast county of Matagorda in 1855. To lighten his widowed mother’s load, he left home at 15 and did the rest of his…