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Outlaws, lawmen, gunfights and frontier legends: how well do you know the real Wild West? Play now and find out!
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Tombstone, Arizona, got its name from a prospector who was told he would find only his tombstone in Apache territory, and it became the setting for the most famous gunfight in the West.
Robert Ford shot Jesse James while the outlaw was straightening a picture in his own home, hoping for a reward.
The Pony Express was made obsolete within days of the transcontinental telegraph being completed.
Gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill by carpenter James Marshall, and the news set off the migration of the so-called forty-niners.
Geronimo's surrender in 1886 ended the long Apache resistance in the Southwest, and he later became a celebrity who rode in a presidential inaugural parade.
The Transcontinental Railroad was completed when a ceremonial golden spike was driven at Promontory Summit, cutting coast-to-coast travel from months to days.
Custer and the men with him were wiped out at the Little Bighorn by a combined force of Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors.
The Chisholm Trail took its name from the trader Jesse Chisholm and became a main route for driving Texas cattle to Kansas railheads.
The Homestead Act opened up vast tracts of public land to ordinary settlers, who could claim it by living on and farming it.
Richard King was a steamboat captain before founding the Texas ranch that still carries his surname.
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