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William B. Secrest, Sr.

 

Born in Fresno, California, in March of 1930, William B. Secrest grew up in the great San Joaquin Valley. After high school he joined the Marine Corps where he served in a guard detachment and in a rifle company in the early years of the Korean War. Returning to college, he obtained a BA in education, but for many years he served as an art director for a Fresno advertising firm.
 

Secrest has been interested in history since his youth and early began comparing Western films to what really happened in the West. A hobby at first, this avocation quickly developed into correspondence with noted writers and more serious research. Not satisfied in a collaboration with friend and Western writer Ray Thorp, Secrest began researching and writing his own articles in the early 1960s.
 

Although at first he wrote on many general Western subjects, some years ago Secrest realized how his home state has consistently been neglected in the Western genre and concentrated almost exclusively on early California subjects. He has produced hundreds of articles for such publications as Westways, Montana, True West, and the American West, while publishing seven monographs on early California themes.

 

 Image Not Available  The Gold of Hornitos  1964

 

 Image Not Available  Joaquin: Bloody Bandit  1967

 

 Image Not Available  The Great Yosemite Hold-ups 1968

 

 Image Not Available  Blood and Honor  1970

 

 Image Not Available  Juanita  1971

 

 Image Not Available  The Return of Joaquin  1973

 

 Image Not Available  Dangerous Men  1976

 

   I Buried Hikok  1980

 

 Lawmen & Desperadoes: A Compen...  Lawmen and Desperadoes  1994

 

 Image Not Available  Dangerous Trails  1995

 

California Desperadoes : Stori...  California Desperadoes  1999

 

Perilous Trails, Dangerous Men...  Perilous Trails  2001

 

When the Great Spirit Died: Th...  When the Great Spirit Died  2002

 

California Feuds : Vengeance,...   California Feuds   2003

 

  Dark and Tangled Threads  2004

 

 California Disasters 1800-1900: Firsthand Accounts Of Fires, Shipwrecks, Floods, Earthquakes, And Other Historic California Tragedies, Secrest William B. Jr. , William B. seacrest, 1884995497  California Disasters  2005

 

 The Man from the Rio Grande: A Biography of Harry Love, Leader of the California Rangers Who Tracked Down Joaqu?n Murrieta, Secrest William B. Jr. , 0870623281  Man from the Rio Grande  2005

 

California Badmen: Mean Men Wi...  California Badmen  2006

 

 

   Day of the Grizzly  2008

 

 

 

  Showdown  2010