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Outhouses In Hotels

by | May 13, 2019 | Ask the Marshall, Departments, True West Blog

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Did all western hotels have outhouses and pots under the bed or did any have some kind of indoor accommodations other than the chamber pot? How many actually offered baths? The popularity of tub-bathing grew as the country flourished and expanded. In the arid Southwest finding a bathtub could be difficult. In 1871, Tucson boasted 3,000 people, a newspaper, a brewery, two doctors, several s


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