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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 City and some days later disembark into a parallel universe where ...

DEADWOOD | True West Magazine has given its Best of the West Editor’s choice award to the City of Deadwood as the “Best Old West Gunfighter Town” for 2015.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arizona, Tucson survey, 1993. An old west gunfighter attired in 20th century clothes. He stands with proper right arm extended, as if he was going to draw a gun. He wears a ...