WHAT’S THE STORY?
STUFF OF LEGENDS The Old West was full of icons, from gun-slinging cowboys like Billy the Kid, to Native American chiefs, such as Sitting Bull
ALAMY X4
Thanks to a steady diet of Spaghetti Westerns and Hollywood hyperbole, the Wild West is often seen as a period populated by gun-slinging outlaws, card-playing cowboys, buxom bordello girls, boomtown saloon hounds, gold-chasing chancers, wagon train-raiding Native Americans and posse-leading sheriffs.