On gunfights, U.S. colonialism, and studying the American West on the East Coast


On the 150th anniversary of the first quick-draw gunfight of the American West, a conversation about the West as a window into American history with the director of Yale's Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and BordersArticle link

The former Confederate soldier and gambler was shot down by James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok 150 years ago in Springfield, Missouri, in what is today recognized as...
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