CAMP VERDE — Town leaders are split on whether Camp Verde should adopt a "Code of the West" designed to prepare future residents for some of the unique things that come with life in a rural town.

Learning the Old West code was easy decades ago. Novelist Zane Gray’s “Code of the West” told men to wear a hat only outdoors, to never wave but nod at someone on horseback, and to treat women with ...

CHEYENNE -- It's a high-noon showdown over the Code of the West, Wyoming's official code for living a virtuous life like the ideal cowboy.