The American Wild West occupies a unique place in the global imagination, a mythological landscape populated by quick-draw gunslingers, solitary cowboys riding into sunsets, lawless frontier towns ...

The spirit of the Wild West lives on in towns where traditions, culture, and history blaze as brightly as ever. These historic towns, many founded during the 19th century gold rushes, cattle drives, ...

Interspersed throughout the vast, open landscape of the Wild West were settlements, towns, and cities full of saloons, brothels, boarding houses, and other establishments where pleasure was for sale.