This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The period from the 1850s to the early 1900s was a ...

Bryan Burrough, author of "The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild," is fascinated by the “gunfighter era” — which took place from 1865 to 1901 — and colorful Old West characters like Doc ...

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 ...

THE GUNFIGHTER by Joseph G. Rosa. 229 pages. University of Oklahoma Press. $5.95. The strong, silent stereotype of the Western gunfighter has been shot full of holes by a hard-eyed generation of ...

HICO, Texas (KWTX) - On September 23, 1875, Billy the Kid was arrested for the first time after stealing a basket of laundry. He later broke out of jail and roamed the American West, eventually ...

You can count the number of Valley residents who have made a major splash in country music on one hand, even if that hand has lost a finger in a farm equipment mishap. There’s Glendale’s Marty Robbins ...