About the Author
Born in Casa Grande, David Grassé is a third-generation Arizonian, raised in Tucson. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in History and a Master’s Degree in Library Sciences. He resides in Payson and is employed as a Librarian in that burg. Grassé has four published books thus far, A Killer is What They Needed: The True, Untold Story of Commodore Perry Owens, The Bisbee Massacre: Robbery, Murder and Retribution in the Arizona Territory, 1883–1884, The True Story of the Notorious Arizona Outlaw Augustine Chacón, and From the Footlights to the Tenderloin: The Tragic Life of Actress Edna Loftus. He is also the author of numerous journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. His current projects are a history of Tucson's Redlight Districts, 1870 - 1918 and a deconstruction of the legend of the Arizona Rangers. Grassé is a member of Western Writers of America and The Arizona Historical Society.
ANNOUNCED: From the Footlights to the Tenderloin: The Tragic Life of Edna Loftus by David Grassé
Will be available in June 2024
“The historian’s task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but it is to tell what is almost always an uncomfortable story and explain why the discomfort is part of the truth we need to live well and live properly. A well-organized society is one in which we know the truth about ourselves collectively, not one in which we tell pleasant lies about ourselves.”
- Tony Judt
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"Go and Get Your Gun"
The Story of Holbrook's Bucket of Blood Saloon published in
The Tombstone Epitaph May 2020
"Breakout at Yuma" The Story of the Gates Uprising" published in The Joural of the Wild West History Association, December 2021
"Hands Up!' The Tale of the Woodson Brothers... published in The Tombstone Epitaph in May 2019
Excursions and Milestones
People, places, and incidentals.
