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The saloon's owner, a woman called "Big Red", catches a stray shot from the murderer and is mortally wounded. With the doctor out of town Paladin takes charge of her while some of the townsmen, including her ex-boyfriend Guy who acts as the bank, make wagers on her dying before sunrise.
Boone Tavern [2] is a restaurant, hotel, and guesthouse affiliated with Berea College in Berea, Madison County, Kentucky. Boone Tavern Hotel of Berea College is a member of Historic Hotels of America , the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation .
On the morning of January 29, the headstone arrives, which includes Books' death year as 1901, but with no day. Books gives Gillom his beloved horse, bids farewell to Bond, and then boards a trolley for the saloon. Books enters the saloon to find the three men at different tables. Books orders a drink, toasting his birthday and his three guests.
In 1855, Chicago Mayor Levi Boone, a Nativist politician, renewed enforcement of an old local ordinance mandating that city taverns be closed on Sundays and led the city council to raise the cost of a liquor license, which brought on the German and Irish American immigrant protest known as Lager Beer Riot
The grandson of Daniel Boone, Albert Gallatin Boone, [2] operated a grocery store. A story about the Underground Railroad alleges that a southbound tunnel connects to a stable [3] which is now also a bar called the Westport Saloon. Around 1900, the Wiedenmann family operated a grocery there, which catered to Kansas City's elite.
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, cattle rustler, gunslinger, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights.
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The Jersey Lilly, Judge Roy Bean's saloon in Langtry, Texas, c. 1900. A Western saloon is a kind of bar particular to the Old West. Saloons served customers such as fur trappers, cowboys, soldiers, lumberjacks, businessmen, lawmen, outlaws, miners, and gamblers. A saloon might also be known as a "watering trough, bughouse, shebang, cantina ...