On the first of October I retired my ”Ask the Marshall,” column and “True West Blogs.” It is a sad day for me but, to quote James Michener’s French Mountain Man, Pasquinel, “Only the mountains are forever.”
In 1999 Bob Boze Bell purchased True West magazine in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and moved it to Cave Creek, Arizona. He asked me to come on board and to write a column. He had already selected a name, “Ask the Marshall.” That’s always the hardest part. I had no idea at the ti

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