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The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
This category is for articles on history books about the American Old West (i.e. books that focus on the western United States in the second half of the nineteenth century). Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
The Old West is a series of books about the history of the American Old West era, published by Time-Life Books from 1973 through 1980. Each book focused on a different topic specific for the era, such as cowboys , American Indians , gamblers and gunfighters .
Selman's Scouts, also called The Rustlers, [1] the Wrestlers [2] and later Selman-Evans gang, [3] was a gang formed by brothers John and younger brother Tom Cat Selman in 1878 in Lincoln County, New Mexico, during the Lincoln County War, when they coalesced with the Murphy-Dolan faction. [4]
The James–Younger Gang commits the first train robbery in the history of the West by derailing a locomotive of the Rock Island Line west of Adair, Iowa and stealing $3,000 from the express safe and passengers on board. [149] Dec "My Western Home", a poem by Dr. Brewster M. Higley, is first published in an issue of the Smith County Pioneer.
This is a list of the publications released for the roleplaying game Deadlands: The Weird West, published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group.The game was originally released using its own custom rules, and has since been published using the d20 system, GURPS and Savage Worlds rules.
1st edition, printed in 1975, 34 pages, no ISBN. 2nd edition, printed in 1979, ISBN 0-394-51875-6. Reprinted with a different cover in 1984. 3rd edition, printed in 1990, ISBN 0-88038-976-1. Boot Hill, 2nd Edition was supported by a referee's screen and five 32 page adventure modules: Referee's Screen and Mini-Module, ISBN 0-394-52590-6.
Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. [1] Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 20th century and Louis L'Amour from the mid-20th century.