The Wild West is born out of the desperation following the Civil War. The Wild West is born out of the desperation following the Civil War. Outlaws rampage and rob, while lawmen become legends. Though ...

Her exploits became the stuff of legend, glamorizing life in the Old West. But Martha Jane Canary’s real life story bears ...

The American Wild West occupies a unique place in the global imagination, a mythological landscape populated by quick-draw gunslingers, solitary cowboys riding into sunsets, lawless frontier towns ...

Hollywood tall tales have turned Wild West figures into legends, but historian Andrew Kercher will take on the task of separating fact from fiction on May 15. The presentation “The Wild West? Myths ...

The American West is Edenic, infinite and free, wild and wide-open space – or at least, this is what our stories tell us about the places west of the 100th meridian. But who controls these stories, ...

I. The West without a West: the Indians: Introduction to Part I -- Beginnings: A Navajo creation song; In a hard land / Margaret M. Wheat; In a land of plenty / Frank Boas ; Timeless laughter: Coyote ...

When you think of the Wild West, you probably imagine gun-slinging cowboys, dusty saloons, and dramatic showdowns at high noon. But what was life like back then? These rare and fascinating photos take ...

When the late Western Mass. artist Tom Bernard was in his 70s, he opted to turn his lifelong passion for the American West into a collection of handcrafted holsters for toy guns. Now his daughter, ...

In July 1913, professional cowgirl Lucille Mulhall rode in the Miller Brothers’ Oklahoma Ranch Wild West Show parade through Vancouver. Then, at two local shows, she outperformed the cowboys. (The ...

It was all about Wild West myths and classy Negronis as Rai Cinema celebrated “Heads or Tails?” in Cannes on Thursday. Presented in Un Certain Regard and directed by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo ...