The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
The Beginnings of the Bird Cage Owner Billy Hutchinson led it through some difficult times Billy Hutchinson had a dream— an entertainment facility that would be the jewel of Tombstone. It took a year to get it done, but on December 24, 1881, the Bird Cage Theater had...
Tombstone: A Reckoning
Thirty years after the popular film’s release, it might be the most influential Western of all time. In 1993, Walt Disney’s Hollywood Pictures green-lighted the biggest Western film the conservative motion picture company had ever produced. Unforeseen by...
East vs. West
H.W. Brand’s major new dual biography of Geronimo and Sherman, plus a new history of Western prostitution, a pair of classic Westerns and a new volume of Old West short stories. If you are a dedicated follower of historian H.W. Brands’ work, The Last Campaign:...
Don’t Bet Against a Sporting Girl
How soiled doves tried to beat the odds against hypocrisy and politicians For several decades, Hollywood has had a fine time portraying shady ladies of the past. From the illustrious Miss Kitty of CBS’s Gunsmoke, to the disreputable wenches on HBO’s Deadwood,...
True West March/April 2025
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus
