On Gunsmoke did the actors drink real beer?
Barry Fielding
Brea, California
Yes, they were drinking real beer and I’m betting it was cold. For whiskey however, they used tea.
Marshall Trimble is Arizona’s official historian and the Wild West History Association’s vice president. His latest book is 2018’s Arizona Oddities: A Land of Anomalies and Tamales. Send your question, with your city/state of residence, to marshall.trimble@scottsdalecc.edu or Ask the Marshall, P.O

True West November 2019
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- Wyatt’s Stallion, the Apache Kid and the Code of the West
- Ask The Marshall
- Geronimo Steals the Show
- If the State Won’t Do It
- Santa Fe Art Pilgrimage
- Ask the Marshall
- Ask the Marshall
- Ask the Marshall
- Ask the Marshall
- Ask the Marshall
- Prescott, Arizona
- Western Roundup
- Pioneers and Their Pies
- Alaska at 60
- An Officer and a Gentleman
- Bullets, Bread & Bad Behavior
- Ask the Marshall
- What History Has Taught Me: W. Michael Farmer, Author