Pinkertons

The true story of the adventures of a Scottish barrel-maker, Allan Pinkerton, who fled Glasgow in Scotland when chased by police for being an active Chartist and together with his new wife Joan Carfrae was shipwrecked on the shores of America, attacked by Indians, and started a business of Coopering with one silver dollar and went on to be successful. However, he began a new career as a detective and eventually formed the Pinkerton Detective agency and the first Secret Service in America, during the American Civil War,which was the fore-runner of the F.B.I. He personally assisted President Abraham Lincoln in the bloody years of the Civil War and after the war took on the famous bad men who were mostly the result of the conflict, and ruled the Wild West. His personal battles were also with the notorious killer Jesse James. An exciting story which you will have a job to put down!