A town in New Mexico is full of Wild West history, and a mercado dating back to 1857 shows off the town's artsy flair near ...

Tombstone is a 1993 western movie starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, with Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael ...

There are many Western movies that may have been seen as Rotten when they were released, but with time, fans have realized ...

The gritty, unglamorous truth about the antiheroes of the Wild West In “The Gunfighters,” Bryan Burrough sets out to debunk the myth of the Colt-toting cowboy hero.

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Old West End Festival wrapped up a vibrant weekend of celebration with performances from dozens of bands, including local favorites like Chloe and the Steel Strings, Leadfoot ...

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 ...

The Wild West gunfighter is a stock figure in dime novels and cornball westerns—but what is the reality of the six-shooter packing outlaw?The new book by Bryan Burrough, The Gunfighters: How Texas ...

Lavishly illustrated and leather-bound, this entry in the Time-Life Old West series is a classic that found its way onto the bookshelves of many teenage boys like me during the 1970s.

It’s a trope of almost every Western movie or TV show: a man with hat on his head and a gun on his hip swaggers into a saloon and picks a fight with one of the locals. Or maybe two men with guns meet ...

Home Culture & Life Books Features Bryan Burrough's 6 favorite books about Old West gunfighters The Texas-raised author recommends works by T.J. Stiles, John Boessenecker, and more ...

But to live by the “Gunfighter’s Code” of the Old West was to die by it, too. As a Kansas marshal in 1871, Hickok shot dead a cowboy who’d unexpectedly fired on him, but then when his own ...

T he American Frontier of the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century is a period sometimes referred to as the Old West. An era often characterized by violence as much as for ...