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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the far reaches of California, a sun-bleached cottage and an empty town still whisper the name Wyatt Earp. From desert mines to mock graveyards, the legacy of the old west’s most famous gunfighter ...

Here are a few more things worth knowing 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 ...

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 ...