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Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 3:24
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Subject: Re: Introduction
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