If you asked miners what they ate as they dug for the silver and gold and copper of Arizona Territory, they'd shrug and say: “The usual 3-B's: beans, bacon and bread.” But ask the same question of the mining towns that grew up to support the digs and you'd find a far different answer.
Like the Tombstone Epitaph's 1880s ad for the Can Can Restaurant: “Game as wild as a tornado, chicken as tender as a maiden's heart, ice cream as delicious as a day in June, dessert that would charm the so
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