While watching our favorite Western movie or TV characters eat a sumptuous meal at the local boarding house, café or sitting around the old campfire, we almost never see them become ill, throw up or run to the privy within hours or a day or so after eating that rare beef steak with eggs over easy.
You can bet that in the real Old West such latter events were far from uncommon. Then, as
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