Vickie Sterbenz: Buffalo hunting. Gambling. Carousing.
Mack Ukich: Hey I'm here for the first time. I came across this question and I find the replies truly helpful. I'm hoping to offer something back to the community and help others too.
Hilde Heskett: During those first years (1870's) the population varied according to the season, swelling during the summer with the influx of cowboys, cattle buyers, gamblers and prostitutes. Business houses, dance halls and saloons catered to the Texas trade. Saloon keepers renamed their places, Alamo and Lone Star and served brandies, liqueurs and the latest mixed drinks. Ice usually was available so even beer could be served cold. Some saloons advertised anchovies and Russian caviar on their cold menus. Gambling ranged from a game of five-cent "Chuck-aluck" to thousand dollar poker pots. Many saloons offered some type of musical entertainment - a piano player, a singer, or as in Chalk Beeson's Long Branch, a five-piece or! chestra. Beeson also organized and led the famous Cow Boy Band (sic) that entertained all over the west at cattlemen's conventions, concerts, dances and in Washington, D.C. at the inauguration of President Harrison....Show more
Emile Okafor: saloons
Elsie Resner: Ms. Kitty's saloon, not serious... Off old show, Gunsmokebull riding rodeosgambling
Floy Fague: I was curious about this as well
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