There was an art to organizing a great posse. There was more to it than just calling on a few buddies to bring their horses and guns and join in on a long ride to find the bad guys. The business of putting together a great posse fascinates me and that’s why I decided to write about the subject. A lot of what lawmen like Charles LaFlore and Bill Tilghman knew about forming a smart posse was common sense. Which oddly enough is not so common. The same ideas that were used to organize a posse can be applied in business. No one knew that better than detective Allen Pinkerton. The Pinkerton National Detective Agency, founded in the 1850s, is still in existence today. Wish I would have researched this topic before I invested all my cash in that Christmas present opening service.