The Wild West has arrived in Bucyrus via Cowboy Andy Rotz and Lindsay Leigh. The dynamic duo entertained crowds of all ages with their daily shows at the Crawford County Fair this week. “For five ...

Cowboy and Old West historian Michael Grauer rates 13 Wild West scenes in movies and television for realism. Michael Grauer debunks common tropes in Western films, such as the realism of quick-draw ...

Dive into the Cowboy Carter Chronicles to discover the remarkable tales of Black women who defied the odds and shaped history on the frontier. DAUGHTER and JOLENE on ...

The American West captured the public imagination at the close of the 1800s. In that industrial age, it was not really very wild any more, but nostalgia and fantasy for its past burned bright. Visual ...

Wild West Shows led to a skewed perspective of the role of real cowboys in America. Buffalo Bill and his Rough Riders' dramatic reenactments of conflicts such as The Battle of Summit Springs cast ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this article misstated the university Professor Kinitra Brooks works at. Cowboy hats are everywhere right now. You see them on artsy posters in ...

You may have noticed a proliferation of cowboy boots and bolo ties lately (and bootcut jeans, thanks Kendrick!), but the Wild West vibes are not just for your closets. While 2024 was dubbed the “Year ...

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 tales and quick quips. Consider the case of Pink Higgins. Higgins stumbled ...

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Miranda Lambert dials up the Wild West imagery in a brand new song. “If I Was a Cowboy” is peppered with references to wanted posters, tumbleweeds, and six-guns, and is the country singer’s first solo ...