Upon release, he embarked on the Old West’s most famous criminal career. Detailed findings and methodology: Many of the cowboys on our list began their work life laboring as ranch hands and then ...

But since these actors weren’t real cowboys, 24/7 Tempo compiled a list of the most famous cowboys of all time. These are actual cowboys who roped steers, herded cattle, and rode high in the saddle.

One of the Old West’s most famous towns is rebranding Shoot outs between Cowboys and lawmen aren’t cutting it anymore. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook; ...

But while the famous heroes were all white, historians say, in real life the old west was just as diverse as our communities today. The Smithsonian estimates that one in four cowboys was Black.

But to live by the “Gunfighter’s Code” of the Old West was to die by it, too. As a Kansas marshal in 1871, Hickok shot dead a cowboy who’d unexpectedly fired on him, but then when his own ...

He was America’s most famous painter of the Old West. But where was he to go when the Old West was gone? Frederic Remington went to Florida, and he didn’t like what he saw. He favored cowboys ...

In “Son of the Old West,” writer Nathan Ward tracks Siringo from Texas to Idaho and seemingly everywhere in between while relating his encounters with an array of characters, some of them ...

Actors are seen reenacting the events that led to an 1881 shootout in the town that left three dead and became one of the most famous gun battles in the Old West on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2019 in ...