A close friend of mine—a fellow historian and avid outdoorsman—likes to joke that while I merely write about the American West, he has actually lived it, crisscrossing the region’s hiking trails, bike ...

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 ...

When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. Sonnichsen was a Harvard-trained historian teaching in El ...

“This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” declares the newspaper editor to Ransom Stoddard, after James Stewart’s character finally unspools the truth to the story of ...