The period from the 1850s to the early 1900s was a turbulent time in the American West. The Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 enabled the forced relocation of Native Americans to reservations, opening ...

This video examines the addictions that plagued some of the most famous figures of the Wild West. Alcohol, morphine, opium, and other substances became common ways to cope with pain, injury, and ...

On the Friday evening of July 21, 1865, a recently discharged Confederate soldier named Davis Tutt stood in the courthouse square of Springfield, Mo. He wore a leather duster and he carried a pistol ...

Bryan Burrough, the author of The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild, recalls a time when expressing one's preferred portrayal of Doc Holliday was character-defining barroom banter. "In my era ...

An incredible historical overview! Be transported into the wild and wooly past of the American Wild West! In this fascination 6 documentary collection, you'll find history, lore and biographies of the ...

Here are a few important points to remember about the Running Wild Films western flick. A Guide to Gunfighters of the Wild West starring John Schile, Ernest Marsh, Shanda Renee, Travis Mills has a Not ...

I’ve long been obsessed with the fact that, in 1869, even as the Brooklyn Bridge rose, you could board a train in New York and some days later disembark into a parallel universe where horse-mounted ...

As much as the “Gunfighter Era” of the Old West was characterized by shoot-outs in the streets, so too was it known for tall tales and quick quips. Consider the case of Pink Higgins. Higgins stumbled ...

The West has always had trouble keeping fact and fiction separated, and Arkansas politics lately presents much the same difficulty. These books approach the problem from opposite directions. Bryan ...

Texas author Bryan Burrough knew he wanted to write book on gunfighters of the American West, but struggled with the angle: Could he say anything new about the likes of Jesse James, Billy the Kid, ...