It looked like the set of "Gunsmoke" the past few days at the Oklahoma City Gun Club, only Marshal Dillon, Festus and Miss Kitty weren't there. However, there were plenty of people dressed like them.

Cowboy action shooting has grown in popularity over the last several years and now enjoys an international membership in excess of 80,000, with registered clubs in 50 states and six countries.

Mar. 4—Not long after the "closing of the western frontier" in the 1890s, the era of the "Wild West" was almost immediately mythologized in dime novels, live Wild West shows, and the earliest silent ...