Life in the American West - OldWest American West History & Wild West Legends Sat, 26 Jul 2025 01:18:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.oldwest.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-OW-Favicon-1-150x150.jpg Life in the American West - OldWest 32 32 The Reality of Dying of Consumption in the Old West https://www.oldwest.org/dying-of-consumption-old-west/ https://www.oldwest.org/dying-of-consumption-old-west/#comments Tue, 11 Apr 2023 20:14:53 +0000 https://www.oldwest.org/?p=6890 dying of consumption old west

If you could hop into a DeLorean time machine and go back to an Old West saloon, one…

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The Wild West is a more nebulous term than you may think, so when the era ended is…

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From a distasteful painting that got people killed, to the unlikely location of a Civil War battle, these…

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Contrary to popular mythology, no single gun won the West, but these ten firearms certainly carved a niche…

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Folks in the Old West may have been rough, dirty, and trigger-happy, but that doesn’t mean they were…

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