Sonnichsen was a Harvard-trained historian teaching in El Paso who almost single-handedly recovered the stories of the great feuds that wracked Texas for a decade after the Civil War. If you believe, ...

Author Bryan Burrough and his new book, “The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild.” One of the enduring images of the Old West era is that of the gun-slinging cowboy, which was popularized by ...

Old Tucson will be the epicenter of all things Old West gunfighting this weekend as it hosts the Old Tucson Shootout At The Chaparral, Saturday and Sunday. Billed as the "most explosive gathering of ...

When did the Old West truly begin, and when did it finally come to an end? Some trace the Wild Wests start to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, while others think it was much later, as cowboys started ...

The American Old West was a time of lawlessness, survival, and rapid expansion, and firearms were central to that era. For outlaws, guns weren´t just weapons; they were essential tools used for ...

13 original Western ballads tell the true stories of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Johnny Ringo, and the legends of Tombstone — based on history, not Hollywood. These songs bring Tombstone’s history to ...