Ernest Marsh News Today

THE entrance gates to an historic Brierley Hill park have been restored to their former glory.

THE entrance gates to an historic Brierley Hill park have been restored to their former glory.

 Wednesday, July 19  Today and next Wed, Jul 26, are the final dates of Art Tales at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-738-1933). Hear stories, play the gallery games, create artwork, and enjoy performances inspired by pieces in the Carter’s collection from 10am to noon. This week’s

A recently opened display at the Arkansas State Capitol commemorating the U.S. Marshals Service in Arkansas that coincides with the planned July 1 opening of the U.S. Marshals Service Museum in Fort Smith is no coincidence; it was planned that way, said Mike Higgs, assistant curator with the office of Secretary of State John Thurston.

Bass Reeves is having a cultural moment. Not bad for a legendary Black lawman who has been dead for more than a century and was largely absent from history books for much of that time.

On this date ... 1957: Ernest Marsh, known to his many friends in Clovis as “Maggie,” was named president of the Atchison and Santa Fe Railway

Grotesque ceramics by three Victorian brothers go on sale later this month

True West Magazine Our readers remind us of the variables and vagaries of historic truths, “well-established” facts, headlines and historical photographs. Double-Take on Bass Reeves and the Lone Ranger The cover of your February/March2021 issue, showing Bass Reeves masked as the Lone Ranger is simply brilliant. —Rex Rideout (Conifer, Colorado) Well, I’m glad you did not offer me a vote on this month’s cover (February/March 2021). It’s the first cover of TW in all I have seen that ...