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Pinkerton is a private security guard and detective agency established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
A father and son team up with America's first female detective to solve crimes in the Wild West. IMDb provides cast and crew information, episode guide, user reviews, trivia, and more for this 2014-2015 Canadian TV series.
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The Pinkertons is a Canadian Western police procedural television series which features crime cases of the Pinkerton detective agency. The show is officially licensed with the Pinkerton detective agency, and features stories based on actual cases from the Pinkerton detective agency archives dating to the 1860s.
No. In SeasonTitleDirected ByWritten By1"Kansas City"Paul FoxKevin Abrams and Adam Moore2"Double Shot"Michael DeCarloKevin Abrams and Adam Moore3"The Play's The Thing"Paul FoxKevin Abrams and Adam Moore4"The Fourth Man"Michael DeCarloRoy SallowsFrom our roots serving as an intelligence agency during the Civil War, Pinkerton has continued to build an impressive track record establishing the first criminal database, being the first company to hire a female detective, and being a forerunner for the secret service. Discover how Pinkerton has played a historic role in the risk management ...
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- Its founder became a detective by accident. Allan Pinkerton, 1860. In 1842, Allan Pinkerton immigrated to the Chicago area and opened a cooperage or barrel-making business.
- The Pinkertons inspired the term 'private eye.' The Pinkerton agency first made its name in the late-1850s for hunting down outlaws and providing private security for railroads.
- They hired the nation’s first female detective. Kate Warne, the first female detective, helped save Abraham Lincoln's life. In 1856, 23-year-old widow Kate Warne walked into Pinkerton’s Chicago office and requested a job as a detective.
- The Pinkertons may have foiled an assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln. Shortly before Abraham Lincoln’s first inauguration in March 1861, Allan Pinkerton traveled to Baltimore on a mission for a railroad company.
When a whiskey magnate is found dead in a brothel, the Pinkertons go head-to-head with Sheriff Logan and learn that the truth is murkier than a barrel of Kentucky bourbon.
Pinkerton National Detective Agency, American independent police force that was founded in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton (1819–84), former deputy sheriff of Cook county, Illinois. It originally specialized in railway theft cases, protecting trains and apprehending train robbers.
