On the Friday evening of July 21, 1865, a recently discharged Confederate soldier named Davis Tutt stood in the courthouse square of Springfield, Mo. He wore a leather duster and he carried a pistol ...

The popular group of Old West shoot-out reenactors is in need of a few young guns. Dying every week is harder as you get ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sonnichsen was a Harvard-trained historian teaching in El Paso who almost single-handedly recovered the stories of the great feuds ...

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 ...

The American Old West was a time of lawlessness, survival, and rapid expansion, and firearms were central to that era. For outlaws, guns weren´t just weapons; they were essential tools used for ...

If you like reading history, especially Arizona history, I have a book to recommend: Jeff Guinn's "The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the OK Corral - And How It Changed the American ...

Old Tucson will be the epicenter of all things Old West gunfighting this weekend as it hosts the Old Tucson Shootout At The Chaparral, Saturday and Sunday. Billed as the "most explosive gathering of ...