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 ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The period from the 1850s to the early 1900s was a ...

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, ...

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, ...

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.

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. “Deadwood Alive is very pleased Deadwood has ...