The Bird Cage Theater: The Curtain Rises on Tombstone, Arizona’s National Treasure
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Tombstone, Arizona, is endlessly related to Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Doc Holliday, and the legendary OK Corral gunfight that made it a cultural image of the Previous West. The city’s most iconic and storied authentic constructing is the Hen Cage Theater—a surprising instance of late nineteenth-century selection theaters that had been a staple in leisure across the globe. The modest inside that was as soon as full of orchestra music, cigar smoke, laughter and whistles, and cheers and jeers is now an empty canvas for the echoes of the previous.
Yearly tens of hundreds of vacationers are welcomed by means of its doorways to expertise an environment that begs surprise and creativeness. Non-public and public excursions of its inside have impressed questions, evolving lore, and conflicting tales. In current many years its historical past has been fabricated from fashionable fantasy, romantic fiction, and pure fantasy. Now, for the primary time, historic researcher and creator Michael Paul Mihaljevich has pieced collectively the true story of the Hen Cage.
It started within the months main as much as the OK Corral gunfight in 1881, when property proprietor William J. Hutchinson engaged in a violent three-way property struggle between lot-owning residents, a corrupt townsite firm, and grasping mine proprietor Ed Discipline simply to erect the constructing. After its building was accomplished, Hutchinson kicked off a ten-year efficiency run that noticed greater than 250 world-traveling entertainers convey their array of acts to the folks of Tombstone in scenes of basic western romance. When mines faltered and the native economic system edged towards demise, it was the Hen Cage that grew to become the important thing participant within the twentieth-century revival that established Tombstone as a vacationer mecca and rescued it from close to desertion.
Writer : College of North Texas Press
Publication date : November 12, 2024
Language : English
Print size : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 157441948X
ISBN-13 : 978-1574419481
Merchandise Weight : 1.55 kilos
Dimensions : 6.3 x 1.2 x 9.1 inches
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Clients recognize the guide’s factual presentation, noting its intensive footnotes. Furthermore, the historic content material receives optimistic suggestions, with one buyer describing it as vital for Tombstone historical past buffs. Moreover, the story high quality is well-received, with one buyer mentioning it held their curiosity to the very finish. Clients additionally reward the guide’s protection of Selection theaters.
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