As much as the “Gunfighter Era” of the Old West was characterized by shoot-outs in the streets, so too was it known for tall tales and quick quips. Consider the case of Pink Higgins. Higgins ...

But to live by the “Gunfighter’s Code” of the Old West was to die by it, too. As a Kansas marshal in 1871, Hickok shot dead a cowboy who’d unexpectedly fired on him, but then when his own ...