The historic Paramount Ranch Park in Agoura Hills area of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area was nearly completely destroyed in the recent Woolsey Fire west of Los Angeles on November 9, 2018. The movie ranch had been in use since Paramount’s first film Two Flaming Youths with W.C. Fields was made in 1927. Heavily used from the 1930s to the 1950s, the popular Western set was revitalized in the 1990s after the pro

True West February 2019
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- Women of the Alamo
- Who Was Allowed to Wear Feathered Bonnets and What Did They Signify?
- What History Has Taught Me: Alan Rockman
- What Can You Tell Me About Wild Bunch Associate Laura Bullion?
- Grand Canyon’s Grand Meals
- Western Events for February 2019
- Oregon at 160
- Fire Engulfs Paramount Western Ranch
- Battle of the Plaza
- Hollywood’s Six-gun Fakery
- Were any Arizona Rangers Involved in Gunfights in Mexico?
- A Noose and a Scoop
- The Oatman Party was near Arizona’s Painted Rock Petroglyph Site when they were Massacred in 1851. Could that have been a Factor in the Attack?
- What Were Frontier Dentists Able to Do Medically Besides Pull Teeth and Make Primitive Dentures?