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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...