Miss Debo wrote a book called Prairie City which was loosely based on Marshall, and Marshall started a town celebration in 1968 in honor of Miss Debo called Prairie City Days.

It was founded by Tibby Shades (school superintendent) and Ashley Alexander Sr. (band director).

It was cancelled in 1952 due to the state band contest being scheduled on the same date and was never revived.

It grew to such magnitude that WKY radio out of Oklahoma City broadcast the marching band performances held on main street.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol increased participation on festival day to assist with the traffic situation.

Fifty-Seven towns converged on Marshall in 1951 to participate in the festival with sixty-five performing groups.

Also, it is said that when the town was moved 1/2 mile west in order to be located adjacent to the railroad, the city fathers, when laying out the town site, decided to make the streets wide enough to accommodate angle parking at the curbs, two lanes of traffic, and sufficient room for street cars.

It was thought if Marshall should ever become a large city like Chicago that having the streets wide enough would be of great benefit.

Outlaw Dick Yeager alias Zip Wyatt was shot and killed 5 miles (8.0 km) SW of Marshall.

Miss Debo wrote in one of her books that the Dalton gang stopped in one time and bought supplies from the general merchandise store and left with no problems.

Where main street was once lined with cars on Saturdays is now pretty much a ghost town.

[citation needed] Marshall is mostly populated by farmers and people who commute to nearby cities to work.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.5 square mile (1.3 km2), all land.

(Main article: National Register of Historic Places listings in Logan County, Oklahoma) Marshall has two NRHP-registered sites, being the Methodist Church of Marshall off State Highway 74, and Angie Debo House at 200 Oklahoma Ave.