Actor Kevin Costner stepped both behind the scenes as executive producer and in front of the camera as host of the upcoming ...

BrianAJackson/istockphotoThe Wild West was a time of adventure, lawlessness, and larger-than-life figures with unmatched ...

buffalo could still be "hunted" in Cody's Wild West, but not many other places -- where once millions had roamed the Western plains, now there were "not so many buffaloes on the whole American ...

No amount of truth will ever deflate the Old West. Its fables are too integral to the American self-image to be gunned down by the introduction of mere facts. But The Real Wild West will help ...

In contrast to the more sanitised depictions of the Wild West in films like Tombstone and Dances With Wolves from the 1990s, American Primeval presents an unrelenting and violent world.

Kevin Costner's Wild West, a new eight-part History channel documentary series premiering May 26, will share "the real story of our wild past," the Oscar winner says in the new trailer.

Explore the weapons used by notorious outlaws and bandits of the Wild West, from high-stakes robberies to gunfights, as we ...