Today's Coastal Bend History closes out the Old West story we started yesterday about a member of the Kenedy family and a ...

Gunnels was what they used to call a “hard case,” the kind of Western lawman who lived by his own ... By 1890, the 32-year-old Gunnels was working as a deputy under Sheriff Richardson.

I’m your Huckleberry,’ he said in an echo of the figure from Mark Twain who inspired him throughout his career.

The Western genre is full of stunning shootouts and powerful heroes. Characters like JB Books and Wyatt Earp have helped define the genre.

The late Val Kilmer always added idiosyncrasies to his lead turns, but he was even more effective in roles like Doc Holliday.

Russell, who played American lawman and folk hero Wyatt Earp alongside Kilmer’s acclaimed portrayal of the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc Holliday in the 1993 classic, said he wanted to get something ...

As Butch Hayden, a U.S. marshal on the trail of a bank-robbing couple in “Day of Reckoning,” Billy Zane plays a classic ...

Val Kilmer gave his Tombstone co-star Kurt Russell a symbolic gift after they finished filming the 1993 modern Western classic. Speaking to GQ in January 2024, more than a year before Kilmer’s April 1 ...

Unlike Iceman, Doc Holliday was a character Kilmer found to be very well written in the 1993 Western “Tombstone.” Holliday is ...

College Station Police Officer Brad Smith’s service record reads more like that of a Wild West lawman than a modern ... article and offered 19-year-old Brad a job as a police officer for $7 ...