From the quick draw pistol face-offs to the cattle rustling outlaws, you'd think that all the secrets of the "Wild West" would ... the late 1800s. Before 1865, when the first cowboy hat came ...

"The exhibit is not just a historical project, but one that sort of talks about contemporary immigration and what that looks ...

Cowboy and Old West historian Michael Grauer rates 13 Wild West scenes in movies and television for realism. Michael Grauer debunks common tropes in Western films, such as the realism of quick ...

a cowboy's life was a hard one, but living freely on America's western frontier nevertheless appealed to thousands of men. These photos were taken across the American West between the late 1800s ...

However, this portrayal may be one of the longest-standing myths, perpetuated by American efforts to impose a singular national identity through the cowboy archetype. Queerness in the country world is ...

The American West is a time both in history and in myth. Outlaws and sheriffs, cowboys and Indians ... a famous frontiersman from the 1800s. They then sift through a series of statements about ...