Who was the deadliest gunfighter of the Old West? Legends like Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and Jesse James all have larger-than-life reputations, but the truth is often a lot messier. Join me as ...

As much as the “Gunfighter Era” of the Old West was characterized by shoot-outs in the streets, so too was it known for tall tales and quick quips. Consider the case of Pink Higgins. Higgins stumbled ...

Bryan Burrough, the author of The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild, recalls a time when expressing one's preferred portrayal of Doc Holliday was character-defining barroom banter. "In my era ...

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 and some days later disembark into a parallel universe where horse-mounted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sonnichsen was a Harvard-trained historian teaching in El Paso who almost single-handedly recovered the stories of the great feuds ...

If you like reading history, especially Arizona history, I have a book to recommend: Jeff Guinn's "The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the OK Corral - And How It Changed the American ...