What was it like to live in the Wild West? By 1865, over 30,000 miles of train tracks crisscrossed the United States. With the Civil War over — and many people unshackled from slavery ...

Before 1865, when the first ... Native Americans or wild animals seems to be a mighty prevalent one. However, there were quite a few gun laws in the old west that regulated firearms, some towns ...

Most westerns are set in the ‘Old West’ (or 'Wild West'), a surprisingly short period from about 1865 to the end of the 19th Century. But the realities of living in that period were often very ...