Editor’s Note: This story accompanies the May 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine, devoted entirely ... “Greater Yellowstone is the center of the Wild West that remains.

There, he met Josie Bassett Morris, a longtime friend, love interest and a Wild West character in her own right. Morris had five husbands and divorced four of them — at a time when divorce was ...

Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane, Belle Starr, Pearl Hart: Toting guns, these women of the Wild West shot down the view that life as a female pioneer was about cooking, sewing, cleaning and caring for ...

This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Shawn Ryan recalls ... “It’s like the Wild West the way rumors fly in Dawson. A couple weeks ago we went to ...