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 ...

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.

Hollywood gave us a version of the Old West filled with shootouts and saloons, yet the real frontier was far more complex and ...

Cocktail lounges, sports bars, dives, and tiki bars all have their place in any given boozy corner of America. But if you’re traveling through the West this spring and summer, there's nothing better ...

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 ...

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For the first time in a long time, visitors can sidle up to the bar, throw back a shot of whiskey, and maybe even watch a gunfight break out in Shaniko. Yes, Oregon’s most famous ghost town now has an ...