Wild West

Billy the Kid, also known as William H Bonney, was one of the most notorious gunslingers in the Wild West

Billy the Kid The Wild West's most wanted gunslinger

October 1876: General Nelson Miles talking with Chief Sitting Bull after the army's defeat at Little Bighorn

The battle of Little Bighorn: what happened at ‘Custer’s last stand’?

A portrait of sharpshooter Annie Oakley holding a shotgun, mid 1880s. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

Annie Oakley: the most famous sharpshooter in America

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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.

Photograph of Bass Reeves, the first black deputy US marshal west of the Mississippi River

From slave to real Lone Ranger? The incredible life of black Wild West lawman Bass Reeves

A women drives oxen pulling a loaded wagon train through the Black Hills (in South Dakota or Wyoming) in 1887

From the real Calamity Jane to ‘Madam Moustache’: pioneer women of the Wild West

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Karen Jones on the Wild West

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The nearly 2,000-mile First Transcontinental Railroad, seen shortly before completion in 1869. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

How wild was the Wild West?

Jesse James is one of America’s most notorious outlaw heroes. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

How historically accurate are film portrayals of Jesse James?

A view of Old Trail Town, a collection of historic western buildings and artifacts, located in Cody, Wyoming. (Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images)

General Early Modern

My favourite place: Cody, Wyoming

Armed Apache Warriors, Geronimo's Camp

The fight for the American west: how myth obscures reality

A still from the set of 'Westward the Women', directed by William A Wellman. (Photo by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

How the Wild West was spun

Allan Pinkerton

Allan Pinkerton: The eye that never slept