Robin,

    Thanks for the leads. Gray sounds  like an interesting fellow. I spend one summer in Calgary and it's history was very much like the US frontier.

Bobby
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  From: Robin Room 
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  Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 3:24 AM
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  Bobby --
    You might enjoy the works of James H. Gray:  Booze: The Impact of Whiskey on the Prairie West (1974), Red Lights on the Prairies (1986), and -- in another vein -- Bacchanalia Revisited: Western Canada's Boozy Skid to Social Disaster (1982).
     Gray was a temperance-oriented newspaperman who wrote a number of books about the Canadian prairies.  I was impressed when I read the last-named above that he had done his historical homework (not to mention having lived through some of it -- he was born in 1906, was still going strong a decade ago). 
     If the Old West ended in the US with the settling of Montana, it ended later on the Canadian prairies. Robin 

   

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  From: Alcohol and Drugs History Society [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bobby Greer
  Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 10:00 PM
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  Subject: Introduction


  Hello list members! I am Bobby Greer, professor emeritus,
  University of Memphis. I am retired and now live in Austin, TX. I taught counseling courses in Memphis. My interest in this list relates to alcohol and drugs used in the Old West saloons. If any one here could direct me to any resources,
  I would appraciate it.

  Thank you.

  Bobby