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Gunfighters

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Author Bryan Burrough exhumes the gritty history of Old West gunfighters. From Billy the Kid to Wyatt Earp to John Wesley Hardin and dozens more, this collection of stories proves how very violent America's nineteenth century frontier actually was, and traces the blood-soaked history of the troubled men who made it…

43 episodes tracked

Gunfighters

Ep. 01: When Gunfighters Stalked the Old West

Ep. 42: Favorite Films About the West | The American West

Ep. 41: Favorite Books About the West | The American West

Ep. 40: Becoming Natives of Place in the American West | The American West

Ep. 39: The River That Flowed From Nowhere, Part II | The American West

Ep. 38: The River That Flowed From Nowhere, Part I | The American West

Ep. 37: The Wolf Returns to the West | The American West

Ep. 36: Down the West’s Grandest Canyon | The American West

Ep. 35: How the Endangered Species Act Saved the West and America | The American West

Ep. 34: Big Bend and the Deserts of the West | The American West

Ep. 33: Time and Time Again: The Fascinating Evidence from Western Repeat Photography | The American West

Ep. 32: Loving the Plains, Hating the Plains, Rewilding the Plains | The American West

Ep. 31: Cabeza de Vaca’s Fantastic Journey | The American West

Ep. 30: Jesus and Animus Beneath the Bitterroots | The American West

Ep. 29: What Were Charlie Russell and L.A. Huffman Trying to Tell Us? | The American West

Ep. 28: Understanding Nature in a Southwestern State | The American West

Ep. 27: Messages From the Past - The Rock Art of the American West | The American West

Ep. 26: Where the Primeval West Abides | The American West

Ep. 25: Thinking About Big History in One Western Place | The American West

Ep. 24: Getting Over the Color Green and Learning to Love Badlands | The American West

Ep. 23: Golden-Eyed Lightning Rod | The American West

Ep. 22: New West, Modern West, Public Lands West | The American West

Ep. 21: How You Create a New West, and a New America | The American West

Ep. 20: Coyote - America’s Jackal and Its Roller-Coaster Ride Through History | The American West

Ep. 19: Shadows of the Frontier | The American West

Ep. 18: From Safari American-Style to the Boone & Crockett Club | The American West

Ep. 17: What Really Happened to America’s National Mammal? | The American West

Ep. 16: A Dream of Bison | The American West

Ep. 15: The Most Dangerous Beast? Or the God of the West? | The American West

Ep. 14: Wolf West | The American West

Ep. 13: A Western Geography of Hope | The American West

Ep. 12: John James Audubon and Vanishing America | The American West

Ep. 11: Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses | The American West

Ep. 10: Start of the Endgame for the Ancient West | The American West

Ep. 09: Catlin’s and Bodmer’s "Time Machine Visuals" | The American West

Ep. 08: Beyond the Earth’s Curve, Mysteries | The American West

Ep. 07: Jefferson’s "Other" Lewis & Clark | The American West

Ep. 06: Survivors From A Lost World | The American West

Ep. 05: The Wild New World of the American Serengeti | The American West

Ep. 04: Old Man America | The American West

Ep. 03: Raven’s and Coyote’s America | The American West

Ep. 02: Clovisia the Beautiful | The American West

Ep. 01: West of Everything | The American West