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 ...

On the Friday evening of July 21, 1865, a recently discharged Confederate soldier named Davis Tutt stood in the courthouse square of Springfield, Mo. He wore a leather duster and he carried a pistol ...

Introduction: the significance of the frontier myth in American history -- pt. 1. The mythology of progressivism, 1880-1902 -- The winning of the West: Theodore Roosevelt's frontier thesis, 1880-1900 ...

Describes life in the American West and the growth of the cattle industry, from the introduction of horses and cattle by the Spanish through the reign of the cattle barons in the late nineteenth ...