Marshall Sprague (March 14, 1909 – September 9, 1994) was an American journalist in New York, Paris, and China and writer of books about western United States history.

He received the Colorado Authors League Top Hand Award for Massacre: The Tragedy At White River and A Gallery of Dudes.

Born March 14, 1909[1] in Newark, Ohio, he graduated from Lawrenceville School and Princeton University (1930), both in New Jersey.

[5] He wrote Newport In The Rockies: The Life And Good Times Of Colorado Springs (1961),[4] which Cleveland Amory, a social historian, described as "candid, graceful, diligently researched".

He also wrote A Gallery of Dudes (1967) described as a book of "wonderful tales about eminent commoners and titled Europeans awash in the exhilarating landscapes of America's last frontier" by a critic.