Most images of an Old West saloon are barroom brawls and gunfire, with scantily clad “soiled doves” hanging around. Not according to archeologist and historian Homer Thiel, who has extensively ...

Wild West saloons were more than swinging doors and whiskey—they were the social heartbeat of frontier towns. Packed with gamblers, drifters, cowboys, miners, and outlaws, these establishments were ...

Split image: Left, old photo of men outside “Man at the Wheel Saloon,” one man on the roof steering a ship’s wheel. Right, several serious women pose under a sign reading, “Lips that touch liquor ...

Step back in time with this captivating collection of photographs revealing the raw, unfiltered essence of the American Old West. Forget Hollywood myths—these images capture the dusty saloons of ...

It was the American Frontier, known also as the “Old West,” or the “Wild West” – a place that encompassed the folklore, geography and culture associated with the wave of American expansion in mainland ...

Hollywood gave us a version of the Old West filled with shootouts and saloons, yet the real frontier was far more complex and interesting. Some towns have preserved their authentic Western heritage, ...