b"DID YOU KNOW, IN THE OLD WEST.By Lee Anderson, Old West Living Historian, Award Winning Author, and Old School HorsemanLee Anderson and his horse, Concho, are well known around the state doing presentations in schools, corporate events, and civic events. Learn more about them and his book on his website. historicaloldwest.orgF or the averageF or the most part, Old West saloons allS ince pasteurization had cowpoke inlooked pretty much the same. A falsenot yet been invented, the 1800s, lifewooden front with a wooden boardwalk, acowboys in the old was far from thefew hitching posts to tie a horse, a water sourcewest had to take their beer romantic imageclose by for the horses, and two swinging doors.warm and drink it quickly. we see in modern literature, TV, and film. TheThe long bar usually hadIf they didnt, the beer would average ranch hand was, for the most part,a foot rail because thereget even warmer and go flat. an itinerant contract laborer under the control of the ranchwere no such things asThen, in the 1880's Adolphus foreman or owner. He worked 14 to 18 hours a day sevenbar stools. You did yourBusch figured out a method days a week for $15 to $30 a month and found (room anddrinking standing up. Everyof pasteurizing the brewing board). The job was seasonal, about six months from springcouple of feet down theprocess. He also came up with to fall and not many worked for thefront of the bar were hooksartificially refrigerated railroad same ranch two years in a row. or rings holdingcars and Budweiser was launched as a U.S. nationalD uring the days of the reala small towel.brand from coast to coast. Wild West, men who hadThe bars patrons used the towels to wipe the beerS ome things are just never going to change. A lot of suds from their mustaches and beards (the towels gained a reputation aswerent washed very often either). The floor areathe folks on their way west in the 1800s carved their being dangerous with a gun werecontained wooden tables and chairs wherenames, the date, and maybe their hometown on some more commonly called gunmen,you could sit and drink and where cardof the large rocks along the trail. Independence Rock pistoleers, shootists, or bad men.games were often played. in Wyoming is a 128-foot tall slab that was nicknamed The term fast gun was oftenW hiskey took on the nameThe Register of The applied to someone with a shortDesert and over a temper who was quick to useFirewater during tradingcouple of hundred years, a gun. A little study of the gunwithIndians. To explain whiskeythousands of travelers leather of the times will reveal thatto the Indians, a small amount would behave left their marks holsters were not designed for apoured over a fire. With a high enoughon it. Apparently, if its fast draw. Wild Bill Hickok, in fact, didnt carry his pistolsproof, the whiskey acted like gasoline more than 100 years old in holsters. They were stuck cross draw fashion in a sashon the fire, hence it became known its considered historic. If tied around his waist. as firewater.not, its graffiti. 16 July 2020"