alan pinkerton, the founder was a huge base near chicago. the agents would get some of that. this is in the west, say 1886 in wyoming. there was a strike attempt on cowboys to get $40 a month wage. eight dollars a day, even if they are not seeing all of it is quite a bit of money. very dangerous. some of these accounts that the detective will write which might be fictionalized but very interesting, they are one of the tropes that the workers find out who they are and they have to escape with gunshots at their back or they are caught. definitely if you are found out your intelligence operation would be compromised and you could die. host: in the course of your research at the found one individual in his accounts that you find particularly interesting? can you elaborate on that individual? mr. lillert: hmmm. there is a good man named charlie. he was called "the cowboy detective." he started with the thinker tends -- pinkerton's. they believe there was an anarchist threat any work with them to find the servant anarchists in chicago. he startedfe publishing and said no, this is a