Cowboy and Old West historian Michael Grauer rates 13 Wild West scenes in movies and television for realism. Michael Grauer debunks common tropes in Western films, such as the realism of quick ...

With that in mind, we curated a list of the best Western movies that we think are worth watching any time of year. These gritty films pay homage to the American cowboy and life in the Old West.

The Western genre is vast and diverse, but there are some common hallmarks that define it. It often tells stories about morally conflicted characters living in a harsh world and forced to do ...

A cowboy's bag might contain ... as we think (for some people) Though the Old West was sometimes a violent place, things weren’t quite as bad as the movies would have you believe.