BrianAJackson/istockphotoThe Wild West was a time of adventure, lawlessness, and larger-than-life figures with unmatched ...

This era was unlike any other time in American history. These are the most incredible facts about the Wild West. If you want a more hands-on experience, we have recommendations of places to visit ...

While the tassles and embroidered button down shirts were largely products of Hollywood engineering, the cowboy boots and hats were very popular, but not until the "Wild West" era was dying down.

The Wild West town turned tourist attraction highlights the Wild West era of gunfights, outlaws and hardworking settlers, and its cemetery follows the trend. Boothill Graveyard was the first ...

The classic era of Westerns crystalized America’s self-mythologizing as a “wild” country, tamed only by the rugged individualism of cowboys, sheriffs, and dreamers who traveled West to pan ...

one of the era's best-known marksmen, to a competition in St. Louis, and he never showed up. Buffalo Bill Cody discovered her while touring in California, and she joined the Wild West in time for ...

But just how accurate was Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show? The buffalo were real, to begin with. So was Bill Cody. He had grown up in Kansas during the period of intensive Western migration ...