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Boot Hill was TSR's third role-playing game, appearing not long after Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) and Empire of the Petal Throne, and taking its name from "Boot Hill", the popular Wild West term for "cemetery". Boot Hill was marketed to take advantage of America's love of the western genre. The game did feature some new game mechanics, such as the ...
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 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.
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 .
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Wild West is a system of skill-based character rules that is set in the American western frontier of the mid-19th century. [1]To create a character, the player chooses an occupation such as cattle baron, gambler, dentist, shepherd or lawman, and then adds applicable skills from a list of forty-five [2] that includes Marksmanship, Locksmithing, Weather Forecasting and Mule Skinning.
The American Wild West of 1876 GURPS: Steve Jackson Games: GURPS: 1985, 1986, 1988, 2004 Generic Gurps is an acronym for "Generic Universal Role Playing System" HackMaster: Kenzer & Company: Custom, derived from AD&D system 2001, 2009, 2011 Based on the comic Knights of the Dinner Table: Hahlmabrea: Sutton Hoo Games 1991 Halcyon: Neuwerld ...