“Leave me alone and let me go to hell by my own route!” Famous almost-last words of Calamity Jane shortly before her death in Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1903.
“Here's one, lady, that's already saucered and blowed.” Seems folks loved their coffee steaming hot in the old West, and an eastern matron found it undrinkable during a ten-minute train stop on her way West. She looked at the steaming cup o
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