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Nathan Ward

The Flitcrafting of Sam Spade

Spade had no original. He is a dream man in the sense that he is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been…

Jan 23

The Flitcrafting of Sam Spade

Jan 23

The Cowboy as Detective: Finding Charlie Siringo’s West

When Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid finally came to my boyhood mall, I saw it three times, wondering in the dark about the unnamed…

Sep 5, 2023

The Cowboy as Detective: Finding Charlie Siringo’s West

Sep 5, 2023

The Bizarre Story of the ‘Cowboy Mutiny’

In 1902, Captain Robert Peattie was attacked aboard the Leicester Castle by a disgruntled sailor, who then killed the ship’s 2nd mate…

Jul 6, 2023

The Bizarre Story of the ‘Cowboy Mutiny’

Jul 6, 2023

The Burial Detail: A Story of D-day

Burying the first dead at “Bloody Omaha.”

Jun 6, 2019

The Burial Detail: A Story of D-day

Jun 6, 2019

The Greatest Crime Magazine That Never Was: Remembering ‘The Big Clock’ and Its Crime-Solving…

THERE IS A CERTAIN PUBLICATION I would gladly go to work for over most others. Not the hard-drinking Harold Hayes-era Esquire, or…

Apr 19, 2019

The Greatest Crime Magazine That Never Was: Remembering ‘The Big Clock’ and Its Crime-Solving…

Apr 19, 2019

A Detective’s Detective

Inspired by reading Hammett, David Fechheimer became the consummate San Francisco detective. But his longest case was investigating the…

Apr 9, 2019

A Detective’s Detective

Apr 9, 2019

Isidore Zimmerman: The Man the System Couldn’t Break

As a teenager, Izzy Zimmerman was framed for the 1937 murder of a Manhattan detective. Nearly electrocuted at Sing Sing, beaten almost to…

Oct 18, 2018

Isidore Zimmerman: The Man the System Couldn’t Break

Oct 18, 2018

Elmore Leonard’s Gritty Westerns : Before Crime, Elmore Leonard Mastered the Western

On a night in April 1957, the lean Western movie star Randolph Scott attended the Detroit premiere of his new film, The Tall T, based on a…

May 16, 2018

Elmore Leonard’s Gritty Westerns : Before Crime, Elmore Leonard Mastered the Western

May 16, 2018

Confessions of the Outlaw: The Lazarus Life of Emmett Dalton

Coffeyville, Kansas 1892

Jan 30, 2018

Confessions of the Outlaw: The Lazarus Life of Emmett Dalton

Jan 30, 2018

Mike Johnson’s Waterfront Jungle

His brave reporting gave us the Kefauver crime hearings and Mob movies, especially Budd Schulberg’s masterpiece, On The Waterfront.

Dec 21, 2017

Mike Johnson’s Waterfront Jungle

Dec 21, 2017

Nathan Ward

Nathan Ward

Author, SON OF THE OLD WEST The Odyssey of Charlie Siringo: Cowboy, Detective, Writer of the Wild Frontier and The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett

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