Allan Pinkerton Pinkerton in a Season 2 episode of "Drunk History". Pinkerton is also a recurring character in the 2014 series "The Pinkertons", played by Angus Macfadyen. Pinkerton is also portrayed in an episode of "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams", by Don Galloway (1937-2009), and in the 1994 American biographical western film "Frank and Jesse" by William Atherton. In but in these cases, as in the others, he seems to be portrayed with an American accent, although he was Scottish by birth, and may still have retained his Scots accent. Hardboiled crime fiction writer Dashiell Hammett was employed by the
Kathrene Pinkerton Kathrene Pinkerton Kathrene Pinkerton (June 9, 1887 – September 6, 1967) was both a fiction and non fiction writer whose writings focused on life in the northern wilderness of Canada. Pinkerton was born on June 9, 1887 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Later, she went on to earn a BA at the University of Wisconsin in 1909. Upon graduating, Pinkerton went on to conduct social work, focusing on tuberculosis outbreaks in rural Wisconsin. On March 24, 1911, she would marry Robert E. Pinkerton, also a writer. In 1912, the couple moved to the wilderness of northern Ontario. There, they built their own