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3 unusual facts about Marshall Trimble


Augustine Chacon

According to Old West historian Marshall Trimble, Chacon was "one of the last of the hard-riding desperados who rode the owl-hoot trail in Arizona around the turn of the century." He was considered extremely dangerous to authorities, having killed about thirty people before being captured by Burton C. Mossman and hanged.

Marshall Trimble

In addition to his position as director of Southwest studies at Scottsdale Community College, he is a popular speaker and True West Magazine's question-and-answer man.

In 1972, Trimble was asked to create an Arizona history class at Scottsdale Community College.



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