When Americans refer to The Wild West or the Old West, they are speaking of a time that existed both in reality and in myth. In the second half of the nineteenth century, America was pushing ...

A Wild West expert critiques The Good, the Bad and the Ugly shootout for perpetuating inaccurate gunfighter myths. Leone's masterpiece deliberately mythologizes the Old West, creating memorable ...

Of course, there were some smiling faces among 19th century cowboys, but the gunslinging frontier hero you may picture is a Wild West myth. Cowboys in the old American West worked cattle drives ...

When Americans refer to The Wild West or the Old West, they are speaking of a time that existed both in reality and in myth. In the second half of the nineteenth century, America was pushing ...