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by | Jan 11, 2018 | True West Blog

ORO Cowboys by Jay Dusard True West
Long before Matt Dillon, Chester and Miss Kitty wrapped their hands around a warm cup, coffee was a staple on the frontier.  In 1849 while surveying a military route through the Southwest, Lieutenant William Whiting noted in his journal that coffee was “the great essential in prairie bill of fare.”  It was said that many of the early Indian attacks on whites were motivated by a desire fo


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