While the Wild West wasn’t quite the world of gunslingers and desperadoes portrayed in movies, it was still a dangerous place. With…
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The Wild West of the late 1800s and the turn of the next century was a land with loose laws, big egos,…
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Thanks mostly to Hollywood, many Wild West outlaws have reached folk hero status. Even today, people know gangs like the Wild Bunch,…
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In the days of the frontiersmen, the line between wild and west often became blurred, with people switching and re-switching sides so…
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Serial killers are hardly a phenomenon confined to the 20th and 21st centuries. Many periods of history have been witness to serial…
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The Wild West, or the Old West, refers to the period of western expansion in United States history, roughly from the late…
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Certain periods of history are known to have a particular aesthetic, and perhaps no period of history brings to mind very specific…
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Beginning with The Great Train Robbery in 1903, the Western has been one of Hollywood’s most definitive genres. These so-called “oaters” (cheaply-made…
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The Old West is a place of legend and lore. We’ve all read the tall tales about outlaws, gunslingers, shootouts, and skirmishes…
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The Wild West era of American history is often romanticized as a time of rugged outlaws and fearless lawmen. Those people really…