Subscribe to BBC History Magazine
Newsletter sign up
Download app
Join our Academy
The official website for BBC History Magazine
Search
Period
Back to
Main menu
Ancient Egypt
Roman
Viking
Anglo-Saxon
Medieval
Tudor
Elizabethan
Georgian
Victorian
Second World War
Back to
Period
Browse all periods
People
Back to
Main menu
Tutankhamun
Richard III
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Queen Victoria
Winston Churchill
Cleopatra
Napoleon Bonaparte
Back to
People
Browse all people
Topics
Back to
Main menu
Kings and queens
Weird and wonderful
Sex and love
Social history
Religious history
Women's history
Historical Q&As
Heritage visits
History hero
Historical recipes
Turning points in British History
Back to
Topics
Browse all topics
Video
Podcast
Quizzes
Membership
Back to
Main menu
Membership area
Academy
Back to
Membership
Regency course
Vikings course
Elizabethans course
Witchcraft course
Magazine subscription
Subscribe to BBC History Magazine
Newsletter sign up
Download app
Join our Academy
Home
Wild West
Wild West
Victorian
Billy the Kid
The Wild West's most wanted gunslinger
Membership
The battle of Little Bighorn: what happened at ‘Custer’s last stand’?
Membership
Annie Oakley: the most famous sharpshooter in America
Advertisement MPU index
Premium
Membership
Emma Dabiri
"The Harder They Fall doesn’t engage with one of the main drivers behind the violence"
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Victorian
From slave to real Lone Ranger? The incredible life of black Wild West lawman Bass Reeves
Membership
From the real Calamity Jane to ‘Madam Moustache’: pioneer women of the Wild West
Premium
Membership
The Wild West: everything you wanted to know
. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Victorian
How wild was the Wild West?
Membership
How historically accurate are film portrayals of Jesse James?
Advertisement MPU index
General Early Modern
My favourite place: Cody, Wyoming
Membership
The fight for the American west: how myth obscures reality
Membership
How the Wild West was spun
Membership
Allan Pinkerton: The eye that never slept