Huckelbridge, Dane. Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit. New York: William Morrow, 2014.
The western chapter treats saloons as places of drinking, violence, gambling, lodging, employment, information, politics, and social organization while also tracing how later culture romanticized them.
Dane Huckelbridge, Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit (New York: William Morrow, 2014), PDF sheets 136–159.
Dane Huckelbridge, Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit (New York: William Morrow, 2014), PDF sheets 136–159.
PDF sheet 159
PDF sheet 136
Huckelbridge, Bourbon, PDF sheets 136–159.
Chapter 6 — The West and saloon culture
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