The walk-down, faceoff, quickdraw, showdown gunfight in the street has become an iconic image of the Old West. As far as ...

For hundreds of years in America, the most important application of windmills was to provide power to pump for water and it ...

these are the iconic images of the Old West. These lesson plans are based on History Detectives episodes which examine artifacts that encapsulate the spirit of the American West. Students learn ...

It was the American Frontier, known also as the “Old West,” or the “Wild West” – a place that encompassed the folklore, geography and culture associated with the wave of American expansion ...

Mexican-American playwright Karen Zacarías estimates that half of Old West cowboys after the Civil War were Black or Hispanic ...

Scottsdale's Museum of the West is a cultural treasure that celebrates the rich heritage, history and artistry of the ...

There, frontiersmen, Mormons, federal troops and Native American tribes vie for land and power in a strategically significant slice of the ever-expanding West. A bloody conflict rages across ...