How Texas Made the West Wild," Bryan Burrough traces the paths of men who settled scores with pistols and called the Lone ...

Fortune-seekers and former soldiers arrived in the small towns of the Old West, carrying pistols and a taste for violence.

Bryan Burrough's new book is The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild. Below, the Texas-raised author of Barbarians at ...

He takes his own path and makes his own choices. Like a gunfighter on the side of innovation, beauty and good cheer, individualist Thomas Blackshear brings new blood to the frontiers of Western art.

The original movie, starring Gregory Peck and directed by Henry King, revolutionized the Western genre through its sophisticated exploration of fame’s burden and violence’s psychological toll ...

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 ...

Sources tell Deadline that Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke is on board to pen a new reimagining of the 1950 Peck western The Gunfighter for 20th Century Studios. Hawke will co-write the script with his ...

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. -- Almost hidden on a side-street is the nation's largest single collection of western art in one museum and it is part of the formidable Smithsonian Institution. It is in the ...