How Texas Made the West Wild," Bryan Burrough traces the paths of men who settled scores with pistols and called the Lone ...

On January 17, 1890, John ... West and the shape of the nation’s democracy. America’s story had always closely aligned with that of Exodus—the tale of a people who left behind an oppressive ...

Dear R.C.: John Wesley Hardin's life was colorful enough ... Hardin’s life, real or magnified, made him an Old West legend. He was mentioned in novels such as Larry McMurtry’s “Streets ...

The news comes to us from the ever-savvy Stefano D’Urso of The Aviationist: ...

The folk-pop songwriter then adopted his stage name from the 1967 Bob Dylan album, in which Dylan famously misspells the name of the Old West gunslinger, John Wesley Hardin. With a Dylan-esque ...

John Wesley Powell’s map of the American West sectioned off by watersheds offered a bold new ... No one would call the 56-year-old veteran and explorer handsome, but one knew immediately when he ...

With his wife and daughter at his side, John Wesley Powell dies at his home in Maine on September 3. He is 68 years old.

Son of a Methodist preacher, John Wesley Hardin was only 15 years old when he first had a price ... Museum for the special exhibition, Guns West, opening in May 2008.