Poker was the headliner, with legends like “Wild Bill” Hickok and “Doc” Holliday turning the game into a mythology of its own ...

After more than 22 years of research and writing, Craig Crease is looking forward to debunking popular myths about frontiersman "Wild Bill" Hickok, including one based in Springfield. On June 3, ...

Twenty-four years ago the quiet Bethel Township village of Medway was surprised to learn that a celebrity had been sleeping in an unmarked grave in their cemetery since 1955. A genealogy inquiry ...

Cozzens, enjoyably, tells tales involving Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and gambling and town leader Al Swearengen as well as an array of other characters. His description of the frontier town is ...

This brassy Californian emerged as Annie Oakley's only serious female rival in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. Oakley eventually prevailed, but at a price — she lopped six years off her age to ...

Robert Conrad starred in movies and television shows including The Wild Wild West, Baa Baa Black Sheep and Hawaiian Eye Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over 30 years ...

Robert Conrad, the athletic, two-fisted actor who starred as Secret Service agent James West and did his own spectacular stunts on the 1960s futuristic CBS Western 'The Wild Wild West,' has died. He ...

Actor Robert Conrad, best known for 1960s and '70s television series "The Wild, Wild West," "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and "Hawaiian Eye," died Saturday in Malibu, California, of heart failure, a spokesman ...

Actor Robert Conrad, known for the television show “The Wild Wild West,” died Saturday at the age of 84, according to his family spokesperson Jeff Ballard. Conrad died of heart failure in Malibu, ...