How Texas Made the West Wild. Below, the Texas-raised author of Barbarians at the Gate, Public Enemies, and two other ...

Connecting the dots of Western gunfighting, this locally-rooted author's book shows the central role Texas played in ...

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

Bryan Burrough, the author of The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild, recalls a time when expressing one’s preferred portrayal of Doc Holliday was character-defining barroom banter.

As much as the “Gunfighter Era” of the Old West was characterized by shoot-outs in the streets, so too was it known for tall ...

Here are the guns that won the old West. Some of the most well-known gunfighters like Wild Bill Hickock and Wyatt Earp were lawmen who gained fame for carrying out justice. But most were bandits ...

Constable Ward is assigned to track down a mysterious villain known only as The Leader. Trying to locate a secret gold mine, The Leader pits the Indians against the Mounties, whom he blames for ...

Nope. But change “lawful pioneers seeking a better life” to “gunfighters” and now you’ve got their attention. Yuma hosts the annual competition Jan. 9-10 at Yuma Territorial Prison ...

Facing him on the south side of the square, writes Bryan Burrough at the outset of “The Gunfighters,” his lively chronicle of a uniquely American creature, was a 28-year-old Union scout with ...

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 ...

Here are the guns that won the old West. Some of the most notorious gunfighters, including Wild Bill Hickock and Wyatt Earp were sheriffs, marshals, and deputies who became famous for maintaining ...