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 ...
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, ...
CHARLESTON -- Old West gunfighters with Illinois roots will be the subject of a presentation at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Five Mile House. Cal Smith's presentation will feature a lecture and film clips ...
Until the HBO series Deadwood came along, I knew little about the culinary aspects of the Old West. However, even David Milch’s TV Western gives short shrift to the food produced for gunfighters, ...
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.