Saving the old girl is more than a dream.
Everyone wants to save “Hollywood in the Desert”—the Old Tucson Studios that hosted more than 400 films and television projects in the eight decades since Columbia Pictures decided to build an 1860s replica of Tucson for its game- changing Arizona.
Arizona, noted for its historic authenticity, was the first movie made at the Old Tucson Studios, and the reason

True West April 2021
In This Issue:
Features
- Exploring Buffalo Bill’s Wyoming
- Tracking the Texas Rangers
- Silver State Highways
- A Big Sky Adventure
- Overland Trails: Fur Trappers to Pony Express Riders
- Arizona Adventures Await
- Highways West!
- Queen of the Soiled Doves
- A Long Shot: Buffalo Hunters vs. Quanah Parker’s Warrior
- The Luck of the Irish
- A Killer Bullets Couldn’t Stop
- Outback Outlaw, Mystical Hero
- Out West and Down Under
- Tom Selleck: The Last of the Breed
- Truth be Known
- Lights, Camera, Action
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- What History Has Taught Me – Jim Arndt
- Western Roundup – April 2021
- Freedom, Independence and Madness
- Dining in the Desert
- Into Max Evan’s Hi Lo Country
- A Long Shot: Buffalo Hunters vs. Quanah Parker’s Warrior
- Quigley’s Sharps – Cinema’s Most Famous Gun?
- Hollywood’s West of the Imagination
- “I’m Your Huckleberry” Has a Double Meaning for Old Tucson
- An Expedition Gone Wrong
- Shooting Back