A Wild West expert critiques The Good, the Bad and the Ugly shootout for perpetuating inaccurate gunfighter myths. Leone's masterpiece deliberately mythologizes the Old West, creating memorable ...

In this lesson, students watch an excerpt from the episode Tumbling Tumbleweeds, in which they learn about Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers, a Western singing group famous for the song ...

The American West is a time both in history and in myth. Outlaws and sheriffs, cowboys and Indians, wide-open plains with herds of buffalo and tumbling tumbleweeds: these are the iconic images of ...