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 ...

A dispute over funds from the sale of Rock Creek Station led to a deadly shootout in 1861 that helped launch the legend of ...

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 Gunfighter' had a very turbulent production.

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 ...

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 ...

In “The Gunfighters,” the journalist Bryan Burrough offers a lively look at the legends and myths of the Wild West. By Paul Begala Paul Begala is a political strategist from Missouri City, Texas. He ...

THE GUNFIGHTER by Joseph G. Rosa. 229 pages. University of Oklahoma Press. $5.95. The strong, silent stereotype of the Western gunfighter has been shot full of holes by a hard-eyed generation of ...