More Wild West figures from Artizan;
These are Pinkerton agents, but could also represent US government secret agents.
The organisation was founded in the 1850s by Allan Pinkerton, a Scottish detective and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency. It later changed its name to the Pinkerton Agency.
It was founded to help enable businessmen control and monitor their employees and to prevent industrial action and strikes. The Agency also worked with the US government as a supplement to the government's own Secret Service. In addition to its activities in strike-breaking and spying on unions and labour organisations, Pinkerton agents were also involved in crime-fighting in the Wild West, notably against bank and train robbers.
These figures are clearly suitable for use in all manner of settings, especially in games of In Her Majesty's Name and other VSF and Steampunk, as well as western gunfighting games.
