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Thread #106026   Message #2187976
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
06-Nov-07 - 07:01 PM
Thread Name: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
TOWNSMEN SALOON BROTHEL OLD WEST TRUE WOMEN PHOTOS - no doubt including Gargoyle's "retiring Wyoming Brothel Queen".

Some interesting stuff in there - for example:

"An Irish fiddler named Kelley, employed in a saloon in Idaho City, Idaho, grew so apprehensive over the hair-trigger tantrums of the local miners that he insisted on an ingenious safety measure. He had the proprietor build a platform that was rigged to the ceiling by a system of pulleys and halyards. Whenever gunfire broke out he was hoisted aloft, where he played on, presumably above the line of fire."