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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. "In my era ...

Texas author Bryan Burrough knew he wanted to write book on gunfighters of the American West, but struggled with the angle: Could he say anything new about the likes of Jesse James, Billy the Kid, ...

THE GUNFIGHTER by Joseph G. Rosa. 229 pages. University of Oklahoma Press. $5.95. The strong, silent stereotype of the Western gunfighter has been shot full of holes by a hard-eyed generation of ...

I’ve long been obsessed with the fact that, in 1869, even as the Brooklyn Bridge rose, you could board a train in New York and some days later disembark into a parallel universe where horse-mounted ...

In the far reaches of California, a sun-bleached cottage and an empty town still whisper the name Wyatt Earp. From desert mines to mock graveyards, the legacy of the old west’s most famous gunfighter ...