The English essayist Charles Lamb once said, ''Man is a gaming animal.'' If he had known the Amer...

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For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter just as deadly ...

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He may be little known today, but Ben Daniels was a feared gunman who typified the journeyman gun...

In the 1870s, Deadwood was a thriving-and largely lawless-boomtown. And as any fan of western his...

Captain John R. Hughes, Lone Star Ranger is the first full and complete modern biography of a man...

Offers an account of the five Marlow brothers and their tribulations in Young County, Texas.

'Bleeding Kansas' has earned its name. A state already scarred from the violence wrought by the l...

The colorful figures of the western American frontier, the Indian fighters, the mountain men, the...

Timothy Isaiah ''Longhair Jim'' Courtright operated on both sides of the law and became a legend ...