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
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