They don’t come like Marshall Trimble anymore, and Arizona has few native sons quite like this one.
Some residents know Trimble best as Arizona’s official state historian. Others know him for his Western-inspired music and books, all of which helped him earn induction into the Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall Of Fame. And generations know Trimble best as their Arizona history teacher at Scottsdale Community College for more than 40 years before he retired a decade ago.
A list of all his achievements and honors runs longer than a western diamondback rattlesnake. At the heart of it all, Trimble was born in 1939 in Mesa and was raised on historic Route 66 in the tiny northern Arizona town of Ash Fork where his father worked for the Santa Fe Railroad.
