| Show Cowboy y Jim visits I 1 A t 7 y f ff f fe ff fy e f s b 3 c 5 t ty Ed Life LUe Staff Starr Writer and Photographer Among the legends of the early American West were perhaps the flamboyant figures of the GUNFIGHTERS Names like Billy the Kid and many others have taken on celebrity status as television movies and tall fall tale spinners have made them bigger than life On Feb 1 cowboy actor author and western writer Jim Easterbrook of Colorado Springs presented his portrayal yal of both Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett at the theatre dinner-theatre held in the Copper Room of College College College Col Col- lege Centers East Easterbrook dressed In the cowboy attire of that era years ago spun the story of the young William H. H Bonney known as Billy the Kid of New Mexico legend In Act II H Easterbrook portrayed the famous Pat Garrett lawman who was believed to have ended the legend of the Kid It was the purpose of the one-man one play to present with humor and realism a look at the American West through the eyes of those who lived it The only props other than the chaps spurs ten-gallon ten cowboy hat and the usual paraphernalia was a table chair and barroom Easterbrook along with his wife and manager and his daughter stage manager have played the tourist circuit cir dr- cir cir- cult throughout Colorado and the western states states He He said they were heading back to Colorado Springs for the weekend and then on into info Oklahoma for more presentations presentations presentations presentations' presenta presenta- of his Spirit of the West by y J. J and R. R productions productions productions Jim aim and Renate This This' was truly a different t. t kind of performance t 1 t |
