Billy the Kid’s story has been told many times, and the tale truly is among the most famous classic western folk tales. As I am currently doing a small series on folk heroes of the Wild West, I couldn ...

Twenty-four years ago the quiet Bethel Township village of Medway was surprised to learn that a celebrity had been sleeping in an unmarked grave in their cemetery since 1955. A genealogy inquiry ...

After more than 22 years of research and writing, Craig Crease is looking forward to debunking popular myths about frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickok, including one based in Springfield. This June, ...

Hired on the fly to lay down the law in a lawless land, Judge Roy Bean practiced his own brand of justice from behind the bar of a saloon. With a checkered past and no formal education, Bean had ...

This brassy Californian emerged as Annie Oakley's only serious female rival in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. Oakley eventually prevailed, but at a price — she lopped six years off her age to ...

Robert Conrad starred in movies and television shows including The Wild Wild West, Baa Baa Black Sheep and Hawaiian Eye Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over 30 years ...

Actor Robert Conrad, known for the television show “The Wild Wild West,” died Saturday at the age of 84, according to his family spokesperson Jeff Ballard. Conrad died of heart failure in Malibu, ...