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The station also housed the park's business offices where files were kept and housed an extensive collection of autographed photos from country-western stars that had visited the park. The route was a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 mile L-shaped self-contained loop of track with the town of Tombstone Junction on one end that traveled through the wooded hills of ...
The easternmost town on our list still claims plenty of western heritage. In the 1840s, this was a staging ground for miners before they headed west to seek their fortune; it would later play an ...
With mountainous terrain, boulder-strewn scenery and an "old Western town" set, Spahn Ranch was a suitable filming site for westerns and had been used mostly for B movies and TV series. [4] [5] In 1953, McReynolds sold the site to dairy farmer George Spahn, and it became known as the Spahn Ranch. He continued to allow some filming there.
The Western Town was constructed during 1954 when Paramount purchased (Academy Award-winning) sets previously used at RKO Pictures Encino Movie Ranch, and was a location for some of the era's popular TV Westerns, including The Cisco Kid and Gunsmoke. [39]
He convinced production firms like Pickford-Lasky to shoot The Gay Desperado and M-G-M Pictures to film Let Freedom Ring (film) in town. His biggest contribution to the Tucson film industry however was connected with the film Arizona (1940 film) starring Jean Arthur , based on the novel of the same name by Clarence Budington Kelland about ...
Carson City was a recreation of a prototypical Old-West town, with a row of buildings including a US Territorial Marshall’s office, jailhouse, barbershop, etc. The largest building was the Last Chance Saloon, in which performances were given and food and drink served.
Bonnie Springs Ranch was an attraction near Blue Diamond, Nevada that included an 1880s Western town replica and a zoo. It is located on 63.86 acres (25.84 ha) in the Mojave Desert, below the Spring Mountains in the Red Rock Canyon area, 20 miles west of Las Vegas. The ranch has natural oasis habitat because of the spring water surfacing there.
In 1872, Dodge City was staked out on the 100th meridian and the legal western boundary of the Fort Dodge reservation. The town site was platted and George M. Hoover established the first bar in a tent to serve thirsty soldiers from Fort Dodge. The railroad arrived in September to find a town ready and waiting for business.