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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…

6 min readJan 23, 2024

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The Flitcrafting of Sam Spade

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Nathan Ward

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…

12 min readSep 5, 2023

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The Cowboy as Detective: Finding Charlie Siringo’s West

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Nathan Ward

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…

14 min readJul 6, 2023

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The Bizarre Story of the ‘Cowboy Mutiny’

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Nathan Ward

The Burial Detail: A Story of D-day

Burying the first dead at “Bloody Omaha.”

7 min readJun 6, 2019

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The Burial Detail: A Story of D-day

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Nathan Ward

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…

5 min readApr 19, 2019

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

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Nathan Ward

A Detective’s Detective

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

6 min readApr 9, 2019

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A Detective’s Detective

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Nathan Ward

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…

13 min readOct 18, 2018

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Isidore Zimmerman: The Man the System Couldn’t Break

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Nathan Ward

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…

8 min readMay 16, 2018

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

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Nathan Ward

Confessions of the Outlaw: The Lazarus Life of Emmett Dalton

Coffeyville, Kansas 1892

17 min readJan 30, 2018

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Confessions of the Outlaw: The Lazarus Life of Emmett Dalton

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Nathan Ward

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.

6 min readDec 21, 2017

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Mike Johnson’s Waterfront Jungle

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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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