A host of experts and visits to noted collections and museums shed new light on crime and punishment in the Old West. Learn what it was like to be a sheriff or judge in the boomtowns and whistle stops that peppered the expanding frontier. In the 19th century, as the nation spread rapidly west, it was all the law could do to keep up. The promise of a fresh start and undiscovered territory brought many questionable characters to the frontier and its...