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This painting hanged over the bar in Dodge
City's infamous Long Branch Saloon.
This image available for photographic prints
HERE.
The
Long
Branch Saloon, one of the most historic
saloons
of the
Old West, stills serves up a
brewsky or two and a sarsaparilla at the Boot Hill Museum in
Dodge City,
Kansas.
Back in the 1870's
Dodge City
began to acquire its infamous stamp of lawlessness and gun slinging.
Without local or military law enforcement, buffalo hunters, railroad
workers, drifters and soldiers scrapped and fought, leading to the
shootings where men died with their boots on.
It was during this time that the famous
Long
Branch Saloon was built, and even that was an
Old West
tale, in and of itself. It all began when a bunch of men were
playing ball on the hot dry
Kansas plains. Side
wagers began as the cowboys played against the soldiers. 'Course,
they were tipping a few brewskies during the game and a bigger wager was
soon made that if the soldiers lost, they would provide the building
materials to construct a
saloon.
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