A true American symbol since the days of the Wild West, the Texan cowboy is still alive and kicking as host Ron Hazelton discovers in this episode during which he goes roping and riding on a cattle ranch that's 175 years old. As he works the ranch, Ron drives cattle, dishes hash at the chuck wagon, and learns the way of the cowboy--from his Stetson down to his spurs.

The O.K. Corral was the site of the world's most famous Wild West gunfight. But the shootout didn't actually happen at the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp was more of a pimp than a lawman, and Doc Holliday didn't die with his boots on.

Virtually unknown to history before Hollywood crafted his saga in the 1930s, Wyatt Earp was an itinerant gambler, convicted horse thief and pimp, sometime saloonkeeper, and occasional lawman. We investigate this last incarnation and the shootout with the Clanton gang in Tombstone's O.K. Corral. Did Earp hide behind his tarnished badge to settle personal scores? Using court records of the gunfight investigation, we cut through the lingering gun smoke to recreate the reality of the bloody gunfight.

On October 5, 1892, the Dalton Gang rode into history with a bold attempt to rob two banks at once in Coffeyville, Kansas. Brothers Bob, Grat, and Emmett Dalton, Bill Powers, and Dick Broadwell attempted to accomplish what no other outlaw gang had ever done. All were killed except Emmett, who, after recovering from his wounds, was sentenced to life in prison, though he was later pardoned. What really happened on that fateful day near the lawless border of Oklahoma and the Indian Territories? What went wrong from the Dalton's perspective, and conversely, what went right for the citizens who stood up to the gang?

Founded in Chicago in the 1850s by Allan Pinkerton, the Pinkerton Agency developed methods for tracking down counterfeiters and bank robbers.

Return to the thrilling days of yesteryear, when the Western was the backbone of American movies. When names like Tom Mix, Gene Autry, and Lash LaRue stood alongside a Gable or Garbo in popularity charts. This special traces the Western from the early Thomas Edison Studios through B-Western to TV aftermath and today's sad festival of bursting blood bags. Features rare clips and interviews with Bruce Dern, Carroll Baker, Ernest Borgnine, John Ritter, Ricardo Montalban, and Tom Selleck.

This is the true story behind one of the most notorious names from the Golden Age of the Wild West. Who was "Billy the Kid"? A cold-blooded killer who murdered 21 men? Or an orphaned teenager driven to avenge the death of the only man who offered him a place to belong? Welcome to gang warfare--Wild West style.

Saddle up, history buffs. We're taking a ride through America's rough and tumble past in search of what's funny about frontier living. From Davy Crockett to Jesse James to Wild Bill Hickok, it's a comedic round-up of the biggest and brashest personalities to venture west of the mighty Mississippi. Get ready for hilarious tales of gunslingers, grifters, and high plains drifters roaming across the land atop their trusty camels. Yes, camels.

Can actor and fight master Peter Woodward tame the untamable? Find out when we send him to Gary Leffew's Bull Riding School to be trained by a world champion bull rider in the heart of California's cowboy country!