List of Old West lawmen

This is a list of Old West lawmen: notable people who served in various law enforcement positions during the Old West period.

Name  | Portrait  | Life  | Years active  | Comments  | Ref.

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John Hicks Adams | No image
available | 1830–1878  | 1864–1878  | Sheriff, Santa Clara County, California, Deputy U.S. Marshal, Arizona Territory |
Alfred Shea Addis |  | 1832–1886  | 1883–1886  | Territorial Marshal, Tucson, Arizona 1883–1886; Deputy US Marshal, Grant County | [1]
William "Red" Angus | No image
available | 1849–1922  | 1888–1893  | Sheriff, Johnson County, Wyoming |
Elfego Baca |  | 1865–1945  | 1884–1890  | New Mexico  |
Phillip Cuney "P.C." Baird | No image
available | 1862–1928  | 1882–1884
1888–1898  | Sheriff and Texas Ranger, Mason County, Texas |
Mariano Barela | No image
available | 1837–1892  |  | Sheriff and U.S. Marshal, Mesilla, New Mexico |
Joel Almon Bascom | No image
available | 1832–1912  |  | Chief of Police, Provo, Utah and constable of Mona, Utah |
John Watson Bell Bascom | No image
available | 1869–1948  |  | Deputy Sheriff, Uintah County, Utah and constable of Naples, Utah |
Charlie Bassett |  | 1847–1896  | 1873–1879  | Sheriff of Ford County, Kansas, Marshal of Dodge City [In Dodge Peace Commission Photograph Bassett is seated in the front row at far left]  |
Johnny Behan |  | 1845–1912  | 1871–1882  | Sheriff, Cochise County, Arizona Territory |
Horace Bell |  | 1830–1918  |  | Los Angeles Ranger |
James W. Bell | No image
available | 1853–1881  |  | Deputy Sheriff, Lincoln County, New Mexico |
Sam Bernard | No image
available | 1880–1964  |  | Deputy Lincoln County, New Mexico, Hillsboro, New Mexico |
Carl P.F. "Charles" Birkenfeld | No image
available | 1852–1923  | 1904–1917  | Constable, Pima County, Arizona |
N. K. Boswell |  | 1841–1904  |  | Sheriff, Laramie, Wyoming |
William J. Brady |  | 1829–1878  | 1869–1878  | Sheriff, Lincoln County, New Mexico |
Billy Breakenridge |  | 1846–1931  |  | Deputy Sheriff and U.S. Marshal, Cochise County, Arizona Territory |
William L. Brooks |  | 1832–1874  |  | Marshal, Newton, Kansas and Dodge City, Kansas |
Charles "Charley" J. Brown | No image
available | 1845–1884  | 1875–1884  | Sheriff, Pembina County, Dakota Territory; Deputy U.S. Marshal, Dakota Territory |
Henry Newton Brown |  | 1857–1884  |  | Marshal, Tascosa, Texas (ghost town) and Caldwell, Kansas |
Neal "Skinny" Brown | No image
available | 1844–1926  | 1879–1895  | Assistant Marshal, Dodge City, Kansas; U.S. Marshal, Oklahoma Territory |
Seth Bullock |  | 1849–1919  |  | Sheriff, Lewis and Clark County, Montana; Sheriff, Lawrence County, South Dakota; U. S. Marshal Dakota Territorych |
Mathew Caldwell | No image
available | 1798–1842  |  | Gonzales Ranging Company of Mounted Volunteers 1836, Sheriff of Gonzales (Guadalupe, Dewitt, Caldwell, Lavaca) Counties 1837, Gonzales & Seguin Texas Rangers 1839  |
Frank M. Canton |  | 1849–1927  |  | Sheriff, Johnson County, Wyoming; Deputy U.S. Marshal, Oklahoma Territory; Under Sheriff, Q County, Oklahoma |
James W. Carr | No image
available | 1845–1926  |  | Marshal Silverton, Colorado; Marshal Rico, Colorado; Deputy Sheriff Ouray County, Colorado; Deputy Sheriff Dolores County, Colorado |
Charles Francis Colcord |  | 1859–1934  |  | Deputy U.S. Marshal, Oklahoma Territory; Chief of Police, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Territory |
David J. Cook |  | 1842–1907  |  | Marshal, Denver, Colorado |
"Longhair" Jim Courtright |  | 1848–1887  |  | Omaha, Nebraska Marshal, Marshal, Lake Valley, New Mexico; Sheriff, Fort Worth, Texas; Detective, Fort Worth, Texas |
Frank Dalton |  | 1859–1887  |  | Deputy U.S. Marshal, Fort Smith, Arkansas, Oklahoma Territory |
Ben Daniels |  | 1852–1923  |  | US Marshal, Pima County, Arizona sheriff, superintendent of Yuma Territorial Prison |
James "Jim" M. Dodson | No image
available | 1876–1890  |  | Prescott, Arizona City Marshal; Arizona State Penitentiary Wall Guard (post retirement)  |
Ed Drew |  | 1865–1911  |  | Pinal County, Arizona deputy sheriff  |
Morgan Earp |  | 1851–1882  |  | Deputy Sheriff, Ford County, Kansas; Marshal, Butte, Montana; U.S. Deputy Marshal, Arizona Territory; Deputy Policeman/Marshal, Arizona Territory |
Virgil Earp |  | 1843–1906  |  | Deputy Policeman and Assistant Marshal, Dodge City, Kansas; Deputy U.S. Marshal, Prescott, Arizona; Deputy U.S. Marshal, Tombstone, Arizona; Marshal/Chief of Police, Tombstone, Arizona; Sheriff, Colton, California; Deputy Sheriff Esmeralda County, Nevada |
Warren Earp |  | 1855–1900  |  | U.S. Deputy Marshal, Cochise County, Arizona Territory; Special Ranger (Arizona Cattleman's Association)  |
Wyatt Earp |  | 1848–1929  |  | Constable, Lamar, Missouri; Marshal (for 1 hour), Ellsworth, Kansas; Deputy Policeman, Wichita, Kansas; Assistant Marshal, Dodge City, Kansas; Deputy Sheriff, Pima County, Arizona, Arizona Territory); Deputy Policeman and Assistant Marshal, Tombstone, Arizona, Arizona Territory; Deputy U.S. Marshal, Arizona Territory |
Stringer W. Fenton | No image
available | 1865–1936  |  | Marshal, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Osage County  |
John King Fisher |  | 1854–1884  |  | acting sheriff of Uvalde County, Texas |
Camillus Sidney Fly | No image
available | 1849–1901  |  | Sheriff, Cochise County, Arizona Territory |
Pat Garrett |  | 1850–1908  |  | Sheriff, Lincoln County, New Mexico; Sheriff, Doña Ana County, New Mexico; Customs Collector, El Paso, Texas; Texas Ranger Captain, Texas |
Lee Hall |  | 1849–1911  |  | Texas Ranger  |
Wiley G. Haines | No image
available | 1860–1928  |  | Undersheriff, County P, Oklahoma Territory; Deputy U.S. Marshal, Oklahoma Territory; Chief, Osage Indian Police  |
John Coffee "Captain Jack" Hays |  | 1817–1883  |  | Captain in the Texas Rangers; first sheriff of San Francisco (1850)  |
Jack Helm | No image
available | 1838–1873  |  | Sheriff, DeWitt County, Texas |
James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok |  | 1837–1876  |  | Marshal, Abilene, Kansas and Hays City, Kansas |
John Henry "Doc" Holliday |  | 1851–1887  |  | Special Police Officer, Tombstone, Arizona Territory; Deputy U.S. Marshal Arizona Territory |
John R. Hughes |  | 1855–1947  |  | Texas Ranger  |
James B. Hume |  | 1827–1904  |  | Marshal, Placerville, California; Undersheriff, El Dorado County, California; Sheriff, El Dorado County, California; Chief Detective, Wells, Fargo & Co. |
Grant Johnson | No image
available | 1858–1929  |  | Deputy U.S. Marshal, Indian Territory |
John "Liver-Eating" Johnson | No image
available | 1824–1900  |  | Deputy Sheriff/Town Marshal  |
John B. Jones |  | 1834–1891  |  | Texas Ranger  |
Jeff Kidder | No image
available | 1875–1908  |  | Arizona Ranger |
John M. Larn | No image
available | 1849–1877  |  | outlaw and Sheriff, Shackelford County, Texas |
James Franklin "Bud" Ledbetter | No image
available | 1852–1937  |  | Deputy Sheriff, Johnson County, Arkansas; Deputy U.S. Marshal, Oklahoma Territory; Sheriff, Muskogee County, Oklahoma |
Isaiah W. Lees | No image
available | 1830–1902  |  | Detective, San Francisco, California |
William Sidney "Cap" Light | No image
available | 1864–1893  |  | Deputy Sheriff, Belton, Texas, Temple, Texas and Creede, Colorado |
Steve "Big Steve" Long | No image
available | d. 1868  |  | outlaw and Deputy Marshal, Laramie, Wyoming Territory |
Harry Love |  | 1809–1868  |  | Captain, California State Rangers (1853–1855)  |
Chris Madsen | No image
available | 1851–1944  |  | U.S. Marshal, Oklahoma Territory |
Bat Masterson |  | 1853–1921  |  | Deputy Sheriff/Sheriff Ford County, Kansas; Marshal, Trinidad, Colorado; U. S. Deputy Marshal, Dodge City, Kansas; Peace Commissioner/Deputy U.S. Marshal, Southern District of New York |
Ed Masterson |  | 1852–1878  |  | Marshal, Dodge City, Kansas |
James Masterson |  | 1855–1895  |  | Dodge City, Kansas, Ford County, Kansas, Ingalls, Kansas, Deputy U.S. Marshal  |
Andrew "Andy" Mather  | No image
available | 1851–1929  |  | Texas Ranger, Williamson County, Texas, Co. E, Frontier Battalion, under Captain Maltby  |
Mysterious Dave Mather |  | 1851–?  | 1880–1885  | Assistant Marshal Dodge City Kansas; Town Marshal New Kiowa Kansas  |
Joseph McNulty |  | 1841–1909  |  | Sheriff, Rooks County, Kansas |
Tolbert "Tol" Fannin McKinney  | No image
available | 1857–1938  |  | Lt. Texas Ranger, Co. D & E.; Frontier Battalion under Captains John R. Hughes & John H Rogers; Deputy Sheriff in Uvalde, Zavala, Bandera, Brewster, and El Paso Counties, Texas  |
Leander H. McNelly |  | 1844–1877  |  | Texas Ranger  |
William H. "High Water Bill" Moorhead  | No image
available | 1867–1870  |  | First sheriff of Pembina County, Dakota Territory which also made him the first sheriff in what is now the State of North Dakota; also served as Pembina town marshal, and Pembina County deputy sheriff. Nicknamed "High Water Bill" for his predictions on how high the flooding Red River of the North would get each spring, predictions that usually included the exchange of money and property.  |
David Neagle | No image
available | 1847–1926  |  | Deputy Sheriff, Cochise County, Arizona Territory; Marshal, Tombstone, Arizona Territory; Detective, US Marshal, San Francisco, California |
Evett Dumas Nix |  | 1861–1946  |  | US Marshal, Fort Smith, Arkansas, Nasty Nate, Kansas  |
Robert Bob Olinger |  | 1841–1881  | 1878–1881  | Deputy Sheriff, Lincoln County, New Mexico |
William Owen "Buckey" O'Neill |  | 1860–1898  |  | Sheriff, Yavapai County, Arizona |
Commodore Perry Owens |  | 1852–1919  |  | Sheriff, Apache County, Arizona |
Allan Pinkerton |  | 1819–1884  |  | Pinkerton Detective Agency Founder  |
Robert Pinkerton | No image
available | 1848–1907  |  | Pinkerton Detective |
William A. Pinkerton | No image
available | 1846–1923  |  | Pinkerton Detective |
Henry Plummer |  | 1837–1864  |  | Marshal, Nevada City, California; Sheriff Bannack, Montana |
Robert Jack Price | No image
available | 1848–1930  |  | Constable  |
Alexander Ramsey | No image
available | 1847–1875  |  | Marshall, Hays City, Kansas, later, sheriff, Ellis County, Kansas, shot and captured Henry Born "Dutch Henry", shot and killed nine other outlaws in discharge of his duties  |
Bass Reeves |  | 1832–1910  |  | Deputy U.S. Marshal, Indian Territory |
Porter Rockwell |  | 1813–1878  |  | Utah Territory |
George Scarborough | No image
available | 1859–1903  |  | El Paso, Texas Sheriff, killed John Selman  |
John Selman |  | 1839–1896  |  | El Paso, Texas Constable, killed John Wesley Hardin  |
Charles A. Shibell |  | 1841–1908  | 1875–1880; 1888  | Sheriff Pima County Arizona  |
Charles Sims | No image
available | 1879–1945  |  | Town Marshal Rosedale, Oklahoma |
Charlie Siringo |  | 1855–1928  |  | Pinkerton detective  |
Sam Sixkiller | No image
available | 1842–1886  |  | Captain, U.S. Indian Police, Indian Territory; Deputy U.S. Marshal, Indian Territory |
John Slaughter |  | 1841–1922  |  | Sheriff and Texas Ranger, Cochise County, Arizona, Arizona Territory |
Lot Smith |  | 1830–1892  |  | Sheriff Davis County, Utah; in March 1853, Farmington, then known as Little Cottonwood, was approved by Utah Territorial Legislature as the County seat of Davis County; a year later, Lot Smith, who also served in Mormon Battalion at age 16, was appointed county's first sheriff  |
Thomas Smith |  | 1830–1870  |  | Marshal and Deputy U.S. Marshal, Kit Carson, Colorado and Abilene, Kansas |
Con Stapleton | No image
available | 1848–1879  |  | Marshal, Deadwood, South Dakota |
Dallas Stoudenmire |  | 1845–1882  |  | El Paso, Texas Marshal and Texas Ranger; Deputy U.S. Marshal  |
Michael Sughrue | No image
available | 1844–1901  |  | Sheriff, Clark County, Kansas; Marshal Ashland, Kansas; Deputy Sheriff, Ford County, Kansas; Deputy Marshal, Dodge City, Kansas |
Henry Andrew "Heck" Thomas |  | 1850–1912  |  | Deputy U.S. Marshal, Oklahoma Territory |
Ben Thompson |  | 1842–1884  |  | Marshal, Austin, Texas |
Bill Tilghman |  | 1854–1924  |  | Deputy Marshal, Dodge City, Kansas; Deputy U.S. Marshal, Oklahoma Territory; Sheriff, Lincoln County, Oklahoma; Chief of Police, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
James Timberlake |  | 1846–1891  |  | Deputy Marshal, Liberty, Missouri; County Sheriff, Clay County, Missouri; Constable, Liberty, Missouri  |
Paden Tolbert |  | 1863–1904  |  | Deputy U.S. Marshal, Indian Territory |
Max Ventura | No image
available | 1866–  |  | U.S. Marshal, Indian Affairs Delegate, North Dakota Territory |
John Joshua Webb | No image
available | 1847–1882  |  | Deputy Marshal, Dodge City, Kansas; Marshal, Las Vegas, New Mexico |
Franklin Pierce West | No image
available | 1852–1886  |  | Indian Territory Deputy Marshal  |
William Fletcher Wheeler | No image
available | 1824–1894  |  | Montana Territory U.S. Marshal 1869–1878, Lt Col, 1st MN Vol Inf, 1858–61, Capt, Co F, 4th MN Inf, 1861–64 (WIA at Vicksburg, Mississippi), 3rd U.S. Marshal in the Montana Territory, 1869–78; founder of Montana Historical Society  |
Fred White |  | 1849–1880  |  | Marshal Tombstone, Arizona Territory; died in the line of duty  |
Robert Widdowfield |  | 1846–1878  |  | Wyoming Deputy sheriff, first Wyoming officer to be killed in the line of duty  |
Robert Widenmann | No image
available | 1852–1930  |  | Deputy U.S. Marshal New Mexico Territory |
Charlie Wilson  | No image
available | 1860–1889  |  | City Marshal, Oceanside, California 1888–1889  |
Jefferson "Keno" Wilson  | No image
available | 1862–1934  |  |  |

## See also

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* List of Arizona Rangers
* List of cowboys and cowgirls
* List of Old West gunfighters

## References

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1. ^ August 12, 1882, reported in The New Southwest and Grant County Herald

## External links

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* Wild West Outlaws and Lawmen
* Complete List of Old West Lawmen at LegendsofAmerica.com

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Gunfights and feuds in the Old West

Gunfights|

* Gunfight at Hide Park
* Goingsnake massacre
* Battle of Bates Point
* Gunfight at Blazer's Mill
* Battle of Lincoln (1878)
* Variety Hall shootout
* Mussel Slough Tragedy
* Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight
* Guadalupe Canyon Massacre
* Battle of the Plaza
* Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
* Trinidad Gunfight
* Vaudeville Theater ambush
* Hunnewell gunfight
* Frisco shootout
* Battle of Cimarron
* Battle of Stone Corral
* Battle of Tres Jacales
* Battle of Ingalls
* Gunfight at Morenci
* Blackwell gunfight
* Shootout on Juneau Wharf
* Hot Springs gunfight
* Shootout at Wilson Ranch
* Gunfight in Moab
* Battleground Gunfight
* Chinese Massacre Cove
* Big Fight at the Jenkins Saloon
* Thibodaux massacre
* Gunfight at Spokogee
* Canyon Diablo shootout
* Shootout in Benson
* Naco Gunfight
* Battle of Eufaula
* Shootout in Sonoratown
* Gleeson gunfight
* Power's Cabin shootout
* Skeleton Canyon shootout

Duels and
showdowns|

* Broderick–Terry duel
* Sandbar Fight
* Hickok–Tutt Shootout
* Duels of Jim Levy
* Duels of Tom Carberry
* Short–Courtright Shootout
* Bull–Peel duel
* Mart Duggan duel
* Anderson-McCluskie duel
* Canton–Dunn Shootout
* Long Branch Saloon gunfight
* South Pass Shootout
* Walker–Graham duel
* Burton Mossman duel
* Silks–Fultom duel
* Higgins–Standifer duel
* Western Code Duello

Feuds|

* Railroad Wars
* County seat war
* Tutt–Everett War
* Regulator–Moderator War
* Lincoln County War
* Lee–Peacock feud
* Sutton–Taylor feud
* Horrell–Higgins feud
* Brooks–Baxter War
* Colorado Railroad War
* Earp Vendetta Ride
* Dodge City War
* Flynn–Doran feud
* Gray County War
* Jaybird–Woodpecker War
* Enid–Pond Creek Railroad War
* Brooks–McFarland feud
* Reese–Townsend feud
* McIntosh County Seat War
* Deschutes Railroad War
* Boyce–Sneed feud
* Placer County Railroad War
* Bellevue War
* Colorado Labor Wars
* Idaho labor strike

Range
wars|

* Johnson County War
* Mason County War
* Pleasant Valley War
* Castaic Range War
* Colorado Range War
* Colfax County War
* San Elizario Salt War
* Pecos War
* Porum Range War
* Fence Cutting Wars
* Sheep Wars
* Sheepshooters' War
* Stuart's Stranglers
* Hashknife Outfit
* Deep Creek murders
* Spring Creek raid

Robberies|

* Jonathan R. Davis Gunfight
* Northfield Bank Robbery
* Skeleton Canyon massacres
* Battle of Coffeyville
* Canyon Diablo Train Robbery
* Wham Paymaster robbery
* Black Bart Robberies
* Fairbank Train Robbery
* Gage Train Robbery
* Big Springs Robbery
* Overland Flyer Train Robbery
* Baxter's Curve Train Robbery
* Jarbidge Stage Robbery

See also|

* Gunfighter
* Cowboy
* Lexington murders
* Bisbee massacre
* Hay Meadow massacre
* Rock Springs massacre
* Morewood massacre

Further information: List of Old West gunfights, List of Old West gunfighters, and List of Old West lawmen

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American frontier

1776 to 1912

Native Nations|

* Apache
* Arapaho
* Arikara
* Assiniboine (Nakota)
* Blackfoot
* Cahuilla
* Cayuse
* Cheyenne
* Chinook
* Caddo
* Cocopah
* Comanche
* Crow
* Dakota
* Five Civilized Tribes
* Hidatsa
* Hopi
* Hualapai
* Kickapoo
* Kiowa
* Kumeyaay
* Kutenai
* Lakota
* Lenape (Delaware)
* Mandan
* Maricopa
* Modoc
* Mohave
* Muscogee
* Navajo
* Nez Perce
* Northern Paiute
* Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth)
* Ojibwe (Chippewa)
* Pawnee
* Pend d'Oreilles
* Pequots
* Pima
* Pueblo
* Seminoles
* Shoshone
* Sioux
* Southern Paiute
* Tohono Oʼodham
* Tonkawa
* Umpqua
* Ute
* Washoe
* Yakama
* Yaqui
* Yavapai
* Yuma (Quechan)

Notable people|

| Native Americans|

* Black Hawk
* Black Kettle
* Bloody Knife
* Chief Joseph
* Cochise
* Degataga
* Crazy Bear
* Crazy Horse
* Crazy Snake
* Dasoda-hae
* Geronimo
* Ganundalegi
* Irataba
* Kiliahote
* Manuelito
* Massai
* Plenty Coups
* Quanah Parker
* Red Cloud
* Sacagawea
* Seattle
* Sitting Bull
* Smallwood
* Snapping Turtle
* Standing Bear
* Ten Bears
* Touch the Clouds
* Tuvi
* Victorio
* Washakie

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Explorers
and pioneers|

* Daniel Boone
* John Bozeman
* Jim Bridger
* Tomás Vélez Cachupín
* William Clark
* Davy Crockett
* Donner Party
* John C. Frémont
* Liver-Eating Johnson
* Meriwether Lewis
* Joe Mayer
* William John Murphy
* John Wesley Powell
* Juan Rivera
* Levi Ruggles
* Jedediah Smith
* Jack Swilling
* Trinidad Swilling
* Ora Rush Weed
* Richens Lacey Wootton
* Henry Wickenburg
* "Old Bill" Williams
* Brigham Young

Lawmen|

* Elfego Baca
* Charlie Bassett
* Roy Bean
* Morgan Earp
* Virgil Earp
* Wyatt Earp
* Henry Garfias
* Pat Garrett
* Jack Helm
* "Wild Bill" Hickok
* Bat Masterson
* "Mysterious Dave" Mather
* Bass Reeves
* George Scarborough
* John Selman
* John Horton Slaughter
* William "Bill" Tilghman
* James Timberlake
* Harry C. Wheeler

Outlaws|

* Billy the Kid
* Black Bart
* "Curly Bill" Brocius
* Butch Cassidy
* Billy Clanton
* Ike Clanton
* Dalton Brothers (Grat, Bill, Bob, Emmett)
* Bill Doolin
* Bill Downing
* John Wesley Hardin
* Johnny Ringo
* Jesse James
* Frank James
* Tom Ketchum
* Frank McLaury
* Tom McLaury
* Joaquin Murrieta
* Belle Starr
* Soapy Smith
* Sundance Kid
* Tiburcio Vásquez
* Younger Brothers (Cole, Bob, Jim, John)

Soldiers
and scouts|

* Frederick Russell Burnham
* Kit Carson
* "Buffalo Bill" Cody
* Texas Jack Omohundro
* James C. Cooney
* George Crook
* George Armstrong Custer
* Alexis Godey
* Samuel P. Heintzelman
* Tom Horn
* Calamity Jane
* Luther Kelly
* Ranald S. Mackenzie
* Charley Reynolds
* Philip Sheridan
* Al Sieber

Others|

* John Jacob Astor
* William H. Boring
* Jonathan R. Davis
* George Flavel
* C. S. Fly
* John Joel Glanton
* George E. Goodfellow
* Doc Holliday
* Andrew Jackson
* Zephaniah Kingsley
* Seth Kinman
* Octaviano Larrazolo
* Nat Love
* Sylvester Mowry
* Emperor Norton
* Annie Oakley
* Sedona Schnebly
* Thomas William Sweeny
* Peter Lebeck

Frontier culture|

* American bison
* Barbed wire
* Boot Hill
* Cattle drive
* Cowboy poetry
* Cattle rustling
* Cow town
* Fast draw
* Ghost town
* Gunfights
* Homesteading
* Land rush
* Manifest destiny
* Moonshine
* One-room schoolhouse
* Rocky Mountain Rendezvous
* Rodeo
* Stagecoach
* Train robbery
* Vigilante justice
* Western saloon
* Tack piano
* Westward expansion
* Wild West shows

Transport
and trails|

* Barlow Road
* Bozeman Trail
* Butterfield Trail
* California Trail
* Chisholm Trail
* Great Platte River Road
* Great Western Cattle Trail
* Lolo Pass
* Meek Cutoff
* Mormon Trail
* Oregon Trail
* Pony Express
* Santa Fe Trail
* Southern Emigrant Trail
* Tanner Trail
* First transcontinental railroad

Folklore|

* Dead man's hand
* Dime novel
* John Henry
* Johnny Kaw
* Long Tom's treasure
* Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine
* Lost Ship of the Desert
* Montezuma's treasure
* Paul Bunyan
* Pecos Bill
* Seven Cities of Gold

Gold rushes|

* Black Hills Gold Rush
* California Gold Rush
* Confederate Gulch and Diamond City
* Klondike Gold Rush
* Pike's Peak Gold Rush

Gunfights|

* Battle of Coffeyville
* Battle of Lincoln
* Frisco shootout
* Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
* Long Branch Saloon gunfight
* Variety Hall shootout

Military conflicts|

* Battle of the Alamo
* Battle of Glorieta Pass
* Battle of the Little Bighorn
* Battle of San Jacinto
* Battle of Washita River
* Bear Flag Revolt
* Chimayó Rebellion
* First Battle of Adobe Walls
* Indian Wars
* Mexican War
* Sand Creek massacre
* Seminole Wars
* Texas Revolution
* Wounded Knee Massacre

Range wars
and feuds|

* Earp-Clanton feud
* Johnson County War
* Lincoln County War
* Mason County War
* Pleasant Valley War
* Sheep Wars
* Sutton–Taylor feud

Lists|

* Arizona Rangers
* Bibliography of the American frontier
* Cowboys and cowgirls
* Gangs
* Ghost towns
* Gunfights
* Lawmen
* Mountain men
* Outlaws
* Timeline of the American Old West

Influence|

* Cuisine of the Western United States
* Chuckwagon
* Californian
* Native American
* New Mexican
* New Mexico chile
* Pacific Northwestern
* Rocky Mountain oysters
* Tex-Mex
* Gothic Western
* Weird West
* Western genre
* Western lifestyle
* Western music
* New Mexico
* Red Dirt
* Tejano
* Texas country
* Western wear
* Cowboy boots
* Cowboy hat
* Jeans
* Snap fastener

| Places|

| Alaska|

* Anchorage
* Iditarod
* Nome
* Seward
* Skagway

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Arizona Territory|

* Canyon Diablo
* Fort Grant
* Prescott
* Phoenix
* Tombstone
* Tucson
* Window Rock
* Yuma

California|

* Bakersfield
* Fresno
* Jamestown
* Los Angeles
* Sacramento
* San Diego
* San Francisco

Colorado|

* Creede
* Denver
* Telluride
* Trinidad

Dakota Territory|

* Bismarck
* Deadwood
* Fargo
* Fort Yates
* Pine Ridge
* Rapid City
* Standing Rock
* Yankton

Florida Territory|

* Angola
* Negro Fort
* Pensacola
* Prospect Bluff
* St. Augustine
* St. Marks
* Tallahassee

Idaho Territory|

* Fort Boise
* Fort Hall

Illinois|

* Fort Dearborn

Kansas|

* Abilene
* Dodge City
* Ellsworth
* Hays
* Leavenworth
* Wichita

Missouri|

* Independence
* Kansas City
* St. Louis

Montana Territory|

* Billings
* Bozeman
* Deer Lodge
* Fort Benton
* Fort Peck
* Helena
* Livingston
* Missoula
* Virginia City

Nebraska|

* Chadron
* Fort Atkinson
* Fort Robinson
* Nebraska City
* Ogallala
* Omaha
* Valentine
* Whiteclay

Nevada|

* Carson City
* Virginia City
* Reno

New Mexico Territory|

* Alamogordo
* Albuquerque
* Cimarron
* Fort Sumner
* Gallup
* Las Vegas
* Lincoln
* Mesilla
* Mogollon
* Roswell
* Santa Fe
* Tucumcari

Oklahoma Territory
and Indian Territory|

* Broken Arrow
* Fort Gibson
* Fort Sill
* Oklahoma City
* Okmulgee
* Pawhuska
* Tahlequah
* Tishomingo
* Tuskahoma
* Wewoka

Oregon Territory|

* Astoria
* The Dalles
* La Grande
* McMinnville
* Oregon City
* Portland
* Salem
* Vale

Texas|

* Austin
* Abilene
* El Paso
* Fort Worth
* Gonzales
* Lubbock
* San Antonio

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