American Pinkerton Chapter Summary

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Day1: character. The main character of this book is Allan Pinkerton and another important character is Abraham Lincoln. Allan Pinkerton is America's first spymaster. Allan is a quiet guy and very good at what he does. How is Allan developing he gets more information every time he gets with that group and getting more suspicious.

Day 2: plot The plot of this story so far is Lincoln is trying to find out when the secret group of people that want to kill Lincoln and where. The main idea so far is Lincoln sent a spy in to spy on the secret group for him. The spy Allan Pinkerton is spying on the secret group and when they start talking about Lincoln and how they don't want him to be president. So the secret group comes up with a idea to kill Lincoln and many people want
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The setting is on a beach about to hang the Reno brothers.

Day 9 character: The main character Allan Pinkerton is getting older and not working like he used to do, and Allan Pinkerton is exhausted and he feels like he is dying. Allan Pinkerton has done

Day 10 plot: The plot is Allan Pinkerton had two members of his family die, and they were his wife and his brother. Allan is now paralyzed and he can't talk his doctor told him but Allan was determined to prove the doctor wrong. There is a new gang that showed up they're named qua trills. The leader is a school teacher that was just prosecuted for murder and horse robbery. His name was William quantrill.

Day 11 conflict: Jesse James was seeking vengeance On a bank president. Thinking the bank president was the killer of bloody bill jesse’s friend. So Jesse killed the bank president and it was the wrong guy, and laterJesse finds out that he is in the paper for for killing the bank president. Now Jesse is forced to hide from the cops and the president's family seeking revenge.

Day 12 setting: Jesse James is hiding and Allan pinkerton's business burned down. It took Allan one year to rebuild it. Now his sons own the business in

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