After more than 22 years of research and writing, Craig Crease is looking forward to debunking popular myths about frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickok, including one based in Springfield. On June 3, ...

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John Wesley Hardin the Old West gunfighter who not only faced down Wild Bill Hickok but also gained infamy for (allegedly) ...

On this day, July 21, 1865, Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed cowboy Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true Western showdown. Texas commissioner injured, husband stabbed to death by grandson: ...

This cover offers up an interesting snapshot of the comic industry of this 1949 moment. Though the title was clearly started to take advantage of the rising popularity of Westerns across all media, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The revolver carried by Old West lawman James "Wild Bill" Hickok on the day he was shot down at a Deadwood saloon failed to sell at an auction in San Francisco on Monday, ...

DEADWOOD, South Dakota — Wild Bill Hickok was killed right there. At least that’s what the woman who sold me the $10 ticket said. I’m in a basement exhibit area of the Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood.

One of the Wild West’s most notorious gunmen was onstage in Wayne County, flubbing his lines in a play called ‘The Scouts of the Prairie’ the second week of October 1873. At 75 yards, this notorious ...

PTSD is a major problem in law enforcement. PTSD was essentially the same, in terms of its symptoms, for centuries before modern media highlighted it for the general public (e.g., Sharps & ...