Bryan Burrough is a journalist and author of eight books — four New York Times bestsellers — covering Wall Street excess, American crime, and Texas mythmaking. A Wall Street Journal investigative reporter turned longtime Vanity Fair special correspondent, he is now Editor at Large at Texas Monthly.
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Sept 24, 2026
Episode Two
Hey, it's Bryan, just wanted to let you know the second episode of my new Gunfighters podcast is dropping today, and it's a fun one. It's called, “Wait, Gunfighters Came From Where?” It tells the story of my search for the origins of Old West gunfighters, which took me to a surprising place: The Antebellum South.
Happy to say the initial reviews have been kind of great, 4.9 on Spotify and Apple. Hope you'll give it a listen.
Sept 15, 2026
Episode One
Hey, this is Bryan. The first episode of the podcast is up today, on Spotify, Apple and everywhere else you get podcasts. This one introduces the series and gives an overview of the Gunfighter Era, the period between 1865 and 1901, when men such as Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp and John Wesley Hardin began getting famous for shooting and killing other Americans.
It's the first of 26 episodes. You can listen to them all, or just select your favorites. Almost all these episodes stand on their own. I hope you'll give it a listen.
Sept 8, 2026
A Note From Bryan
Hey, this is Bryan. The trailer for my new narrative podcast, Gunfighters with Bryan Burrough, is up on Spotify and other podcast sources. Gotta say, it's something I've put a lot of work into, and I'm pretty excited.
The podcast tells the story of the Gunfighter Era of the Old West, 1865 to 1901, from early gunmen such as Wild Bill Hickok and John Wesley Hardin all the way through Billy and the Kid, Wyatt Earp and others into the twilight years at century's end, when the last marquis outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, hightailed it to South America.
There's 26 episodes in all, the first dropping next week. I hope you'll give it a listen.
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Burrough's most recent book traces how Texas — not the mythic "Wild West" of Hollywood — actually produced the gunfighter as an American archetype, separating the real history from more than a century of embellishment.
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