Mid-century San Bernardino was poised to become the crown of the Inland Empire when a new family arrtived determined to seize upon its boundless future. What they achieved would become a culminating story of love & death in the land of "prickly dread."

Butchy’s Rainbow is a captivating account of growing up in the Los Angeles and Inland Empire during the years following World II, the nifty fifties, Dwight Eisenhower.

“There never was and never will be a better time or place to come of age in the history of the world than Southern California in the1950s,” Gilbert writes

Published in 2023 - 503 pages