Tom Collins—theater historian and presenter—has enjoyed a lifelong passion for acting and directing. At the University of Wisconsin-Platteville he cofounded the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival with his colleague Thomas S. Goltry and his wife, Wendy Collins.
When Tom and Wendy retired in 2001 and moved to Prescott, Arizona, it didn’t take him long to start volunteering in the library and archives of the Sharlot Hall Museum. There he became more and more entranced with theatrical entertainme

October 2016
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- The First Woman to “Despise” Polygamy
- The Explosion
- John Bozeman’s Legacy
- Frank Hamer’s Recuperation in Pecos
- Legendary Lady of the West
- Struggling for a Dream
- In Frederic Remington’s Aiding a Comrade, what is the name of the holder that carries two of the men’s rifles on the front of their saddles?
- Pancho’s Pension
- Building Your Western Library
- Gambling with Men’s Lives
- A River of Life
- Yellowstone’s Early Explorer
- Virgil’s Sixgun
- Mogollon Rim
- A Formidable Foe
- Road to Destiny
- George Parsons: Tombstone Insider
- The Noble Trickster
- A Holdup for the Ages
- The Storied Hashknife
- What do you have to say about my favorite movie cowboy, Lash LaRue?