These are the most incredible facts about the Wild West ... Hats were a necessity for most outside activities in the Old West, but they weren't wearing those oversized headpieces called 10 ...

And the reputation of Boot Hill, perhaps the most famous Old West cemetery, also seems to exceed the bare facts. Boot Hill was used for only a few years as a burial ground, and mainly for ...

evil, where facts were among the first victims of savage ... Nor does it get more Old West than the OK Corral, Trimble said. The books and movies forged a vision of the Old (Wild) West every ...

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 ...

When history buffs think about the rip-roaring “shoot-’em-up” frontier towns of the Old West, the legendary mining town of Tombstone usually is the one most often mentioned. What few people ...